The Economic Impacts of the Loma Prieta Earthquake: A Focus on Small Business

Cynthia Kroll, John Landis, Qing Shen, Sean Stryker
2012 Berkeley Planning Journal  
This paper identifies the impacts of the Lorna Prieta earthquake on the economy of the San Francisco Bay Area as a whole and specifically for small businesses. Findings are based on an analysis of published agg regate economic data and a survey of small businesses in two cities. The paper finds that the economy showed a great deal of resistence, and concludes by outlining three lessons for fu ture disaster planning in all areas prone to natural disasters.
doi:10.5070/bp35113132 fatcat:yqljsinaencjjgg33aoun7jolq