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1 Exxon Valdez oil spill, 1989: The clean-up of the oil spill cost an estimated $2.5 billion; recovery for settlements, $1.1 billion; and the economic loss (fisheries, tourism, etc.) suffered due to the damage to the Alaskan ecosystem was estimated at $2.8 billion;
Disasters can be particularly notable for the high costs associated with responding to and recovering from them. This page lists the economic costs of relatively recent disasters. 1  2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan: estimated more than $300 billion. 2  2008 Sichuan earthquake, China, $148 billion. 3  1995 Great Hanshin earthquake $102.5 billion. 4  Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf of Mexico, 2010: Between $60 and $100 billion.