Reports on Damage from the Northridge Disaster
Direct and Indirect costs:
-44 Billion dollars in damage
-30 Billion dollars received in Federal and private insurance funds.
-800 Billion dollars in replacment value on taxable property.

Structural Damage:
-25,000 homes uninhabitable
-7,000 buildings red tagged
-22,000 buildings yellow tagged
-9 collapsed parking garages
-9 hospitals closed
-portions of 11 major roads into and out of Los Angeles had to close
-Multipli bridge collapses

Human cost:
-51 dead
-9000+ injured
-22,000 people were left homeless
-costliest disaster in U.S. history
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