Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan

Jon, Ihnji; Lindell, Michael K.; Prater, Carla S.; Huang, Shaowu; Wu, Hsin‐I; Johnston, David; Becker, Julia; Shiroshita, Hideyuki; Doyle, Emma E.H.; Potter, Sally H.; McClure, John; Lambie, Emily

doi:10.3390/ijerph13111137

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“…Within those 69% evaluated respondents, only 11% evacuated because of the environmental cue. There are similar patterns as well as significant differences between tsunami threats in relation to household reactions (16,18). More empirical evidence is needed to illustrate the impact variables on the evacuation decision and evacuation process (18).…”

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Households’ Intended Evacuation Transportation Behavior in Response to Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard in a Cascadia Subduction Zone City

Chen

Buylova

Chand

et al. 2020

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone would generate a local tsunami that could arrive at coastlines within minutes. Few studies provide empirical evidence to understand the potential behaviors of local residents during this emergency. To fill this knowledge gap, this study examines residents’ perceptions and intended evacuation behaviors in response to an earthquake and tsunami, utilizing a survey sent to households in Seaside, OR. The results show that the majority of respondents can correctly identify whether their house is inside or outside a tsunami inundation zone. Older respondents are more likely to identify this correctly regardless of any previous disaster evacuation experience or community tenure. The majority of respondents (69%) say they would evacuate in the event of a tsunami. Factors influencing this choice include age, motor ability, access to transportation, and trust in infrastructure resiliency or traffic conditions. While the City of Seaside actively promotes evacuation by foot, 38% of respondents still state they would use a motor vehicle to evacuate. Females and older respondents are more likely to evacuate by foot. Respondents with both higher confidence in their knowledge of disaster evacuation and higher income are more likely to indicate less time needed to evacuate than others. Generally, respondents are more likely to lead rather than follow during an evacuation, especially respondents who report being more prepared for an evacuation and who have a higher perceived risk. This study showcases a unique effort at empirically analyzing human tsunami evacuation lead or follow choice behavior.

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Households’ Intended Evacuation Transportation Behavior in Response to Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard in a Cascadia Subduction Zone City

Chen

Buylova

Chand

et al. 2020

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…4 in their paper). Moreover, Jon et al concluded that, the higher people's perceived shaking intensity and risk perceptions were, the less likely they were to resume their previous activities [39]. In addition, a comparison of the three teams of seismic intensity scales, JMA (Japan), MSK (Russia) and CSIS (China), indicated that the reaction of a person's feelings according to JMA is similar to that of CSIS [40].…”

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Evolutionary Game of Emergency Evacuation After an Earthquake at a University: How to Promote Orderly Evacuation

2021

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“…Disaster experience shapes the individual's expectations of the future disasters and their behaviour [45]. Experience with disasters can motivate people to behave actively and take preventive (protective) measures [46], [47]. At the same time, it affects the subjective perception of one's own preparedness [48].…”

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Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Environment

Titko

Sedliaková

2020

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The cost of climate change-related disasters in terms of the lives lost and the damages to the social, economic and environmental assets are predicted to be higher. Disaster risk management is one of the crucial pillars with which to face this emerging trend in order to ensure the goals of are achieved sustainable development. However, the sustainability of the disaster risk management development is also significantly more complicated in changing conditions. It is necessary to look for ways to build a disaster-resilient society. This paper focuses on exploring the possibilities of supporting the sustainability of the disaster risk management through the involvement of the general public into it. The objective of this paper is to present the results from assessing the preparedness for the disasters in the Slovak Republic with an emphasis on the changing climate and environment (from population perspective). The research is based on the exploration of the questionnaire survey's results aimed at investigating the preparedness and preventive proactive behaviour of the population against the disasters. The results suggest that the disaster risk awareness and overall disaster preparedness level is rather poor and the population is inactive. The proactive behaviour of the respondents against the disasters is partially affected by some of their personality and socio-economic characteristics; especially, the younger respondents currently incline more toward adopting the protective measures. In addition, other aspects, e.g. the negative experience with the disasters in the past have an influence on the preparedness. The possibilities of increasing the preparedness of the population and their engagement into sustainable disaster risk management system are also discussed in this paper.

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Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan

Cited by 29 publications

References 34 publications

Households’ Intended Evacuation Transportation Behavior in Response to Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard in a Cascadia Subduction Zone City

Households’ Intended Evacuation Transportation Behavior in Response to Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard in a Cascadia Subduction Zone City

Evolutionary Game of Emergency Evacuation After an Earthquake at a University: How to Promote Orderly Evacuation

Disaster Preparedness and Sustainable Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Environment

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