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The commerce and other services  had also damages, direct and indirectly. Had been directly affected those traders who turn its establishments to fall in and they had been disabled to exert the activity, others that had been with the establishments intact, had had great damages in merchandise. It 12,000,000$00 in merchandises. To these damages directly caused by the earthquake we need to ad, the indirect damages.

In face of the effect caused for the earthquake in Faial and Pico islands, the parties, Sea Week on Faial, Saint Mary MadalenaCais Agosto and Whalers Week on Pico island, who brought to these two islands great number of outsiders who had cancelled its coming. From here happens damages for the operators of trips, hotels and commerce in general.

Some traders already if had exactly provisioned foreseeing the consumption of that great flow of people, and now they will not have to who to sell, in such a way more than great part of the population does not have how to buy, neither how to provision.

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