“…Overall, however, the evidence concerning the association between disasters and suicide is mixed (Bromet & Dew, 1995;Rezaeian, 2008). In corrected analyses, Krug et al (1999) reported no change in the suicide rate in U.S. counties affected by natural disasters, as did Bourque, Siegel, and Shoaf (2001) and Shoaf, Sauter, Bourque, Giangreco, and Weiss (2004) in their analyses of communities affected by the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake.…”