There is a set scale of damages according to the circumstances.

Two days after the storm, only scarce reports on the scale of damage were available.

The larger the scale of damage, the more difficult it is for the forest ecosystem to restore and maintain its balance.

Communications to the hardest-hit areas were severed so the scale of damage was not immediately known.

The scale of damage done by the Blair-Brown project is only beginning to emerge.

Further criticism was made about the government withholding information on the loss of life and scale of damage.

Following the storm, Tonga requested international aid to cope with the scale of damage.

Communications across the region were crippled, and it took six days for word of the scale of damage to reach officials.

Officials have clearly been shocked by the vast scale of damage in southern and northeastern China, where severe flooding persists.

Though several systems impacted land, the general sparsity of population centres in Australia limits the scale of damage.

Timor stands out on account of the scale of damage and violence and the singular political situation there.

Because of the flooding in 2012, insurance renewal premiums were expected to rise between 10 and 50 percent, depending on the scale of damages suffered.

Reports continued about the scale of damage inflicted by allied bombing, and the resulting danger of epidemics.

Some courts have developed scales of damages awards, benchmarks for compensation, which relate to the severity of the injury.

Despite the scale of damage from Dan and other typhoons in the region, no request for international assistance was made by the Philippine Government.

Newspapers reported that the city of Galway "resembled a bombed area," referring to the scale of damage caused by the winds.

This scale of damage may help to minimise the numbers of seeds produced and thus the spread of this invasive tree.

The unprecedented scale of damage prompted meteorologists to vastly improve forecasting in the region to be better prepared for a similar storm in the future.

That said: on a scale of Damage to Celebrity Starlets, leaked sexts are far less offensive than, say, beating your own mother.

In the wake of the disaster, officials in India were accused of covering up the scale of damage and loss of life.

As Coalition ministers pick through the rubble of Labour's failed social experiments, the scale of damage done by welfare indulgence is beginning to emerge.

The large scale of damage led to her scrapping, which occurred in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in the October of that year.

As the scale of damage became more apparent, a request for international aid was made by November 17 to the United Nations Disaster Relief Organization.

Details on the scale of damage were skimpy, he said, because telephone communication was cut off with Bam and nearby towns, including Jiroft and Kohnouj.

Scientists and public service officials have speculated on the threat of another very large earthquake occurring in southern California and what type and scale of damage might result.