Earthquake Education Through the Use of Documentary Movies

Abstract

Unscientific, false, inaccurate and/or exaggerated reporting about anything in media or other platforms is a serious concern that needs a solution. This is particularly important when reporting about disasters (e.g., earthquakes). The lack of authentic scientific input into about science news reporting may can lead to news disasters, which may can prove to be much more critical and dangerous than say-earthquake disasters. Therefore, this paper explores such a this problem in a portion of NW Borneo and offers solution to improve the existing norms on the earthquake science, education and awareness programs in SE Asia. The explored field location is Sabah, Malaysia, which is targeted to map the level of earthquake science education and awareness of local people, and to examine the co-seismic deformation associated with the 5th June, 2015 earthquake. This event has surprised the local communities because the region is geographically located away from the active tectonic plate boundaries, and has traditionally been considered a low earthquake risk region. This is in contrast to the existence of high earthquake hazard and risk regions in the neighboring Indonesia and the Philippines. Therefore, not surprisingly, the residents of Borneo where puzzled, surprised, and worried when a medium magnitude earthquake occurred and caused significant loss of life and property. The lack of scientific education on the causes, and remedies of earthquake hazards in most of the South and Southeast Asian regions is a reality, which needs a proper solution. Therefore, through this work a small initiative has been started in Sabah, Malaysia where stories from the earthquake victims were recorded after the devastation caused by the June 2015 earthquake. Their real time experiences were blended with the updated scientific data on the occurrence of earthquakes in Borneo, which are mostly gathered from previously published works and the work presented here. The entire work is converted into a small documentary movie that highlights the causes of earthquakes and how it impacts human life.

Sivrice Depremini Yaşamış Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Depreme İlişkin Metaforik Algılarının İncelenmesi: Malatya İli Örneği

“…(Aksoy & Sözen, 2014;Altay, 2008;Çakar, 2008;Çelik, Dur & Bayar, 2016;Çoban, Sözbilir & Göktaş, 2017;Değirmençağ & Cin, 2016;Doğan & Koç, 2017;Karakuş, 2013;Öcal, 2007;Öztürk, 2013;Sözen, 2019;Yükseller, 2019). A similar situation is also noticeable in studies conducted outside Turkey (Izadkhah & Gibbs, 2015;Johnson & Ronan, 2014;Navakanesh, Shah & Prasanna, 2019;Mutch, 2015;Tsai, 2001). Because earthquakes are natural disasters that deeply affect human life, they deeply affect human consciousness both during the time period in which they occur and later (Karakuş, 2013).…”

“…Depremlerin oluşumuna engel olmak mümkün değildir. Buna karşın eğitim faaliyetleriyle depremin vermiş olduğu zararın azaltılması sağlanabilir (Navakanesh, Shah ve Prasanna, 2019;Öcal, 2007). Deprem eğitimi yerkabuğunun yapısını tanıyarak, deprem hakkında bilgi sahibi olmak ve deprem sonrasında ortaya çıkabilecek zararları en aza indirmek için gerekli olan bilgi ve becerilerin kazandırılma sürecidir (Çakar, 2008; Öcal, 2005).…”

“…Özellikle 1992 Erzincan depremi ve 1999 Gölcük ve Düzce depremlerin sonrasında, depremlere ilişkin araştırmaların arttığı görülmektedir (Aksoy ve Sözen, 2014;Altay, 2008;Çakar, 2008;Çelik, Dur ve Bayar 2016;Çoban, Sözbilir ve Göktaş 2017;Değirmençağ ve Cin, 2016;Doğan ve Koç, 2017;Karakuş, 2013;Öcal, 2007;Öztürk, 2013;Sözen, 2019;Yükseller, 2019). Benzer durum Türkiye dışında yapılan çalışmalarda da göze çarpmaktadır (Izadkhah ve Gibbs, 2015;Johnson ve Ronan, 2014;Navakanesh, Shah ve Prasanna, 2019;Mutch, 2015;Tsai, 2001). Depremler insan hayatını derinden etkileyen doğal afetler olmaları nedeniyle, hem meydana geldiği zaman diliminde, hem de daha sonra insan bilincini derinden etkilemektedir (Karakuş, 2013).…”

The Role of Social Media in Earthquake Awareness and Earthquake Preparedness in Myanmar

“…Earthquake disaster has been consistently associated with psychological distress [13,14,15]. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), some of the most common symptoms of anxiety include:…”

Comparison of the digital game, drills, and traditional education methods in terms of motivation in earthquake education

“…It is stated that the new generation of children can easily learn, they are a good channel for transferring information to their parents, and they play a critical role in developing a culture of protection from natural disasters such as earthquakes (Izadkhah and Hosseini, 2006). It is also argued that children can actively contribute to the process of reducing casualties associated with disasters when they are sufficiently motivated (Navakanesh et al, 2019). Because motivation has proven to be a good indicator of the process of performing actions related to earthquake preparedness (Paton et al, 2005(Paton et al, , 2010.…”