Knowledge sharing in interdisciplinary disaster risk management initiatives: cocreation insights and experience from New Zealand

Abstract

The 16 th November 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake caused 2 deaths and 624 injuries, making it the largest earthquake casualty event in over 80 years outside of the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence. Data on casualties (deaths and injuries) were sourced from the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC). The ACC is New Zealand's publicly funded accidental injury insurance scheme. ACC data includes all victims that sought medical treatment for injuries resulting from the Kaikoura Earthquake through primary (e.g. GP clinics, physiotherapy clinics) and secondary (e.g. hospitals) health care systems but it does not contain victims that were administered first aid outside of the health care system. The context of casualties from the Kaikoura Earthquake were analysed by considering epidemiological, seismological and engineering perspectives. Of the 626 casualties, 67.4% were female, similar to that observed during the Canterbury Earthquakes. Four percent of victims were aged less than 19, 73% were aged 20-64, and 23% were aged 65 and above. Forty five percent of casualties were a direct result of the earthquake shaking, either from the victim being thrown around or objects hitting them, while 44% of casualties resulted from the action of the victim (e.g. trying to evacuate the building or moving to help another person), and 9% were from post-earthquake actions such as clean up or tsunami evacuation.

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