“…They found that the first kind of event can be seen up to a few Mpc (therefore in M82, M83, NGC253 and NGC4945), while the second can in principle be visible up to the Virgo cluster. However, as already noted by Popov & Stern (2006), this prediction may be too optimistic, since no evidence has been found for an excess of BATSE short GRBs from the direction of M82, M83, NGC253 and NGC4945, nor from the Virgo cluster (Palmer et al, 2005). Similarly, negative results have been reported by Lazzati et al (2005); Tanvir et al (2005), and overall these studies suggest that no more than a few percent, maybe up to ∼ 8% of the short GRBs seen by BATSE could be giant flares from extragalactic SGRs (see also Hurley et al, 2005;Crowther et al, 2011;Svinkin et al, 2015, the latter for a recent update on the detection upper limits).…”