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People's perspectives and expectations on preparedness against earthquake: Tehran case study
2011
Background: Public education is one of the most important elements of earthquake preparedness. The present study identifies methods and appropriate strategies for public awareness and education on preparedness for earthquakes based on people's opinions in the city of Tehran. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study and a door-to-door survey of residents from 22 municipal districts in Tehran, the capital city of Iran. It involved a total of 1 211 individuals aged 15 and above. People were asked about different methods of public information and education, as well as the type of information needed for earthquake preparedness. Results: "Enforcing the building contractors' compliance with the construction codes and regulations" was ranked as the first priority by 33.4% of the respondents. Over 70% of the participants (71.7%) regarded TV as the most appropriate means of media communication to prepare people for an earthquake. This was followed by "radio" which was selected by 51.6% Accepted 2009-05-20 planning, development, and dissemination of essential information to all stakeholders including the local communities.
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Tehran’s Inhabitants for an Earthquake and Related Determinants
Background A major destructive earthquake is predicted to shake the Tehran city in the near future. To mitigate the damage from such earthquakes, it is necessary to assess the preparedness of people and find the related risk factors. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in Tehran city among people aged 15 years or older in 2009. 1195 of Tehran’s residents were interviewed using a questionnaire. Pearson chi-square test and binary logistic regression were used in order to evaluate the factors associated with preparedness against an earthquake. Results The analysis showed that 1076 (90.0%), 1160 (97.1%), and 490 (41.0%) of the participants achieved half of the possible scores for the knowledge, attitude, and practice components, respectively. Furthermore, in multivariate analysis low knowledge (p<0.001), having a high-school (p=0.033) or lower education (p<0.001) and living in Northern high-risk regions (p<0.001) of the Tehran were identified as risk factors for taking precautionary measures against earthquake. For low knowledge, lack of previous experience (p<0.001), and working as labor, businessman, employee (p=0.001) or being housewife (p=0.002) were related risk factors. In addition, people in the Southern high risk regions were significantly more knowledgeable (OR=0.618 compared to people in low risk regions) about earthquakes. Conclusions It is suggested that preparedness programs should target people with lower educational level and people in high risk regions especially the Northern districts of the city and aim at increasing public knowledge about earthquakes.
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Greece is a country highly vulnerable to earthquakes. Lessons learned from recent earthquake disasters have shown that preparedness and prevention are key tools to minimize the impact in human and economical resources of such disasters. Prevention and pre-disaster mitigation steps are necessary for achieving sustainable development. The present study in a form of a questionnaire survey, aims to 1) investigate public`s levels of awareness and preparedness on earthquake protection actions 2) identify the existing gaps and 3) present the earthquake risk mitigation communication policies that have been done in Greece, in order to bridge the identified gaps. According to the results a significant majority of the responders were being familiar with the standardized procedures that include prevention and protection behaviors on earthquake protection issues, as well as response and mitigation actions at individual, family and workplace level. Concerning the school environment, results revealed the effectiveness of emergency management/response of school community in an event of an earthquake.
Local preparedness against earthquakes has been recently highlighted in research and policies on disaster management and risk reduction promotion in Iran. To advance the understanding of public preparedness and how it can be applied in diverse localities, further information is required about the predictors of people's adoption of mitigation activities and earthquake preparedness. A synthesis of the available published research results on earthquake preparedness and the influencing factors in Iran are presented in this literature review. It emphasizes the complexity of both the concept of preparedness and the contextual factors that mediate its adoption. The predominant roles of public awareness, trusted information resources, social capital and community collaboration as predictors are discussed.
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND LEVEL OF AWARENESS EARTHQUAKE20190604 9071 10rt8rp
Disaster strikes in every corner of the world during every season, and different scales throughout a year (Ferry, 2017). This research focused on identifying the level of awareness the level of awareness of the student in the disaster preparedness of the grade 9 student of the Sister of Mary School Boystown Inc., on the school year 219-2020. It aimed to determine the level of awareness and disaster preparedness of the grade 9 student. A survey research was used in this study. The respondents were 208 grade 9 students who are through multi-stage sampling. Frequency count, mean, standard deviation, percentage, slovin's formula, used to treat data. The researcher found out that most of the respondent's level of awareness and disaster preparedness was in high level of awareness. The researchers conclude that most of the students are well prepared for the coming disaster. In the recommendation the students should be always prepare themselves in any incoming disaster happen like earthquake by knowing what to do or where to go if disaster occur. They must continue developing their awareness on disaster. ABSTRACT 3 | P a g e
Health in Emergencies and Disasters Quarterly, 2018
Local preparedness against earthquakes has been recently highlighted in research and policies on disaster management and risk reduction promotion in Iran. To advance the understanding of public preparedness and how it can be applied in diverse localities, further information is required about the predictors of people's adoption of mitigation activities and earthquake preparedness. A synthesis of the available published research results on earthquake preparedness and the influencing factors in Iran are presented in this literature review. It emphasizes the complexity of both the concept of preparedness and the contextual factors that mediate its adoption. The predominant roles of public awareness, trusted information resources, social capital and community collaboration as predictors are discussed.
IJDRR, 2014
During the recent years and especially after the destructive Bam Earthquake in December 2003, the importance of public awareness and community-based activities for disaster risk mitigation and management have been revealed more clearly to Iran's authorities. In this regard, several national policies have been prepared and some activities were carried out by governmental and non-governmental organizations for improving the public awareness and participation in earthquake risk reduction programs from local to national levels. In this paper, these activities have been partly addressed. In addition, the results of a pilot study carried out in three districts of Tehran are presented and discussed in order to evaluate the current situation of public awareness as well as the willingness of Tehran residents to participate in risk mitigation activities. After providing the necessary training and preparing disaster maps, the results of this study showed that communities found novel ways to improve their capabilities for reducing the impacts of potential earthquakes and responding to their effects. Understanding the physical and technical shortages of community-based organizations in Tehran in the field of disaster preparedness and management was another outcome of this research.
Risk Communication for Disaster Preparedness of Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption
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This paper discusses about the social vulnerability as the main issue in the context of two natural disasters in Yogyakarta Metropolitan area, earthquake and volcanic eruption. The inflicted area extends over Yogyakarta City and the nearby major cities (Bantul, Sleman, Muntilan and Magelang), a conurbation inhabited by more than three millions inhabitants. One of the disasters was a major earthquake in a scale of 5.9 Richter on May 27 th 2006, which claimed more than 5,500 lost of lives and destroyed approximately 500,000 houses. Another disaster was a series of volcanic eruption in April -June 2006. This research explores these cases in two study locations, a community at earthquake prone area and a community nearby Merapi Volcano which are located at the southern and northern parts of Yogyakarta City respectively. The research observes the disaster preparedness and awareness in each community. The following questions are discussed in this research: Could pre-disaster initiatives, such as risk communication, positively increase disaster awareness as well as reduce the disaster risk? What can disaster preparedness at local level contribute to maintain resilience in a very large context, such as Yogyakarta metropolitan area? In relation to these goals, social vulnerability in the scope of community's preparedness is examined which leads to the formulation of risk communication for potential volcanic eruptions and earthquake occurrences. Participatory approach is applied in the field studies in order to examine the process of enhancing the existing coping capacity of the communities and to evaluate possible ways of communicating risk. This paper argues that participatory approach would enhance the quality of risk communication at local level and subsequently contributes to global level.
Proceedings Jogja Earthquake in Reflection, 2016
Following the catastrophic Jogja earthquake in 2006, many researches had been conducted to understand the earthquake hazard and its risk. However, seven years after (2013), preliminary research reveals there seems to be a slight slow change in earthquake disaster risk management in Yogyakarta. Therefore, there is a need to explore the extent to which the research results and lessons from the disaster experiences have been utilized, as well as to explore whether there were communication gaps between academics, policy makers and community. This is a descriptive research through qualitative data collection and analysis. Data was collected through series of 25 in-depth key informant interviews, 8 semi structured interviews and 2 community FGDs. Findings of this research indicated that seismic hazard studies has been carried out to international standards and is used for mitigation purposes, however not optimally utilized. Earthquake risk communication is an important process where seismic hazard related information is being exchanged among stakeholders. Information exchange between academics and policy makers plays a central role on the risk communication process. There is communication gap between the academics and policy makers, which indirectly affects the decision-making on prioritizing earthquake mitigation programs as well as disaster awareness among the community.