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| Secondary preparation for earthquake. If you are lucky to survive a severe earthquake, join a relief camp. Wait until debris is cleared. Now comes the question of preparation of earthquake survivors to face life. Life has to go on. Your residence, a house, apartment or even a hut may be fully or partially damaged. Your belongings including clothes cannot be restored. Your local bank is closed. Telephone, electricity and gas will take a long time to be serviced. Your company has moved to another location. You are in desperate situation, you need support. Charity networks and other humanitarian bodies may come forward and provide help for a few weeks. They will disappear as soon as the next calamity occurs elsewhere. You are left alone to fend yourself. Before the earthquake, you need to join schemes for health insurance and life insurance. Your existing insurance policies will provide support for yourself and family. Insurance can bring relief to a large extent in case of any calamity, earthquake or any other. You need education to secure another job after a devastating earthquake. There are existing programs of adult education, distance education and online education from accredited universities. You may need a bachelor's degree. Business training would be ideal for many self employed earthquake victims. You need money now. There is no special financial service to advance money to earthquake victims. There is no special loan to help earthquake affected people. You will need normal house building loan to either build a new house or restore your damaged residence. You may need loan to start a small business. You may need money to pay off old debt. You may need a car loan. Above all, you may need immediate cash advance. Secondary earthquake preparations can bring back normalcy in your lifestyle. |
| Earthquake preparedness - secondary levels |