Even with the five largest cities in Sichuan suffering only minor damage from the quake, some estimates of the economic loss run higher than US$75 billion, making the earthquake one of the costliest natural disasters in Chinese history.
What is an estimate of the economic loss from the quake? What damage did the major Sichuan cities have? What is an estimate of losses to economics? Whose is this one of the costliest disasters in history of? Which cities in Sichuan had minor damage?