Bay Area Response to Information About a Future Major Earthquake

湾区对未来大地震信息的响应

• 批准号: 9107266
• 负责人: Dennis Mileti
• 金额: $ 33.12万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-07-15 至 1993-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9107266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bay; Area; Response; Information; About

Informing citizens, local governments and business organizations about the earthquake hazard to increase awareness, mitigation and preparedness activities is a central element of the national effort to reduce earthquake losses. Relatively little research has been performed on organizational and public response to earthquake risk information about a specific likely future event, since few actual earthquake predictions, advisories, forecasts (they go by many names) that are scientifically credible have emerged in the United States. This research is a study of public and organizational response in the complex, urban, multi-county San Francisco Bay Area to the communication of risk information about that area's next major earthquake. Qualitative and quantitative research will be performed. Mail questionnaires will collect relevant data on a statistically representative sample of households. Interviews will be conducted with key informants from purposefully selected local and non-local businesses, government and other health, safety and welfare organizations. The opportunity to study public and organizational response to scientifically credible risk information about a future major quake in a complex urban setting is rare. This research will describe the effects of the dissemination of such information, and test a set of integrated hypothesized explanations for what is observed.

告知公民，地方政府和商业组织地震危害以提高意识，缓解和准备活动是减少地震损失的全国性努力的核心因素。 关于组织和公众对有关特定可能未来事件的地震风险信息的反应的研究相对较少，因为在美国很少有实际地震预测，咨询，预测（它们以许多名称为单位）出现在美国。 这项研究是对旧金山湾区的公共和组织反应的研究，以传达有关该地区下一次重大地震的风险信息。 将进行定性和定量研究。 邮件问卷将收集有关统计代表性家庭样本的相关数据。 访谈将与有目的地选择的本地和非本地企业，政府和其他健康，安全和福利组织的关键线人进行。 在复杂的城市环境中，研究公众对科学可信风险信息的公共和组织反应的机会很少。 这项研究将描述此类信息传播的影响，并测试一组对观察到的综合假设的解释。