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December 2007

Estimating economic losses in the Bay Area from a magnitude-6.9 earthquake

Richard J. Holden, Donna Bahls, Charles Real

Data from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages are used to analyze potential business and economic losses resulting from an earthquake on the Hayward Fault in northern California.

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