| 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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