Woodframe apartment houses suffered extensive damages in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica areas particularly to structures with `soft ``first-floor or lower-level ,parking garages . Both horizontal and vertical high accelerations lifted off their foundations and / or shifted walls laterally . The financial Restructuring Assistance Revolving Loan program [RLF] extended helping hand to many companies from economic debacle and saved thousands of jobs . For instance , Duke 's , an aerospace manufacturing company was severally affected by the Northridge earthquake . Working capital was...











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