• 85-90% of buildings and infrastructures were either damaged or destroyed, thus leaving 100,000 citizens of Bam homeless.
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Most of the economic impacts were a result of poor natural disaster planning
• The direct economic loss of the earthquake was estimated at 1,500 million dollars.

• the earthquake caused approximately 53 million dollars in agricultural loss, 30 million in tourism, 15.8 million in industrial loss, and 91.3 million dollars in private business loss.