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Both happen, you'll get both neighborhoods organizing as tribes, and the roving gangs of looters and arsonists, the former may spring up in response to the latter.

At least that was the experience in Chile in the most affected localities of the 2010 magnitude 8.8 earthquake.

We called down the breakdown of social order that happened "the social earthquake". Eventually the military had to instate curfews to restore public order, though it was taken to be a display of cracks existing in society that the looting happened in the first place rather than just taken for granted as what will happen in face of disruption of social order, which is the prepper view.