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

This study examines people’s response actions in the first 30 min after shaking stopped following earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. Data collected from 257 respondents in Christchurch, 332 respondents in Hitachi, and 204 respondents in Wellington revealed n...

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Main Authors:	Jon, Ihnji, Lindell, Michael K., Prater, Carla S., Huang, Shih-Kai, Wu, Hao-Che, Johnston, David M., Becker, Julia S., Shiroshita, Hideyuki, Doyle, Emma E.H., Potter, Sally H., McClure, John, Lambie, Emily
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129347/

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spelling	pubmed-51293472016-12-11 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, Shih-Kai Wu, Hao-Che Johnston, David M. Becker, Julia S. Shiroshita, Hideyuki Doyle, Emma E.H. Potter, Sally H. McClure, John Lambie, Emily Article This study examines people’s response actions in the first 30 min after shaking stopped following earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. Data collected from 257 respondents in Christchurch, 332 respondents in Hitachi, and 204 respondents in Wellington revealed notable similarities in some response actions immediately after the shaking stopped. In all four events, people were most likely to contact family members and seek additional information about the situation. However, there were notable differences among events in the frequency of resuming previous activities. Actions taken in the first 30 min were weakly related to: demographic variables, earthquake experience, contextual variables, and actions taken during the shaking, but were significantly related to perceived shaking intensity, risk perception and affective responses to the shaking, and damage/infrastructure disruption. These results have important implications for future research and practice because they identify promising avenues for emergency managers to communicate seismic risks and appropriate responses to risk area populations. MDPI 2016-11-15 2016-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5129347/ /pubmed/27854306 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13111137 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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author	Jon, Ihnji Lindell, Michael K. Prater, Carla S. Huang, Shih-Kai Wu, Hao-Che Johnston, David M. Becker, Julia S. Shiroshita, Hideyuki Doyle, Emma E.H. Potter, Sally H. McClure, John Lambie, Emily
spellingShingle	Jon, Ihnji Lindell, Michael K. Prater, Carla S. Huang, Shih-Kai Wu, Hao-Che Johnston, David M. Becker, Julia S. Shiroshita, Hideyuki Doyle, Emma E.H. Potter, Sally H. McClure, John Lambie, Emily Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan
author_facet	Jon, Ihnji Lindell, Michael K. Prater, Carla S. Huang, Shih-Kai Wu, Hao-Che Johnston, David M. Becker, Julia S. Shiroshita, Hideyuki Doyle, Emma E.H. Potter, Sally H. McClure, John Lambie, Emily
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title	Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan
title_short	Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan
title_full	Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan
title_fullStr	Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan
title_full_unstemmed	Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan
title_sort	behavioral response in the immediate aftermath of shaking: earthquakes in christchurch and wellington, new zealand, and hitachi, japan
description	This study examines people’s response actions in the first 30 min after shaking stopped following earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. Data collected from 257 respondents in Christchurch, 332 respondents in Hitachi, and 204 respondents in Wellington revealed notable similarities in some response actions immediately after the shaking stopped. In all four events, people were most likely to contact family members and seek additional information about the situation. However, there were notable differences among events in the frequency of resuming previous activities. Actions taken in the first 30 min were weakly related to: demographic variables, earthquake experience, contextual variables, and actions taken during the shaking, but were significantly related to perceived shaking intensity, risk perception and affective responses to the shaking, and damage/infrastructure disruption. These results have important implications for future research and practice because they identify promising avenues for emergency managers to communicate seismic risks and appropriate responses to risk area populations.
publisher	MDPI
publishDate	2016
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5129347/
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Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking: Earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan

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