小学校児童保護者を対象とした津波防災意識調査 --白浜町西富田小学校での調査--

Abstract

This report shows questionnaire results on disaster prevention consciousness of Tsunami. The targeted area is the school district of Nishi-tonda primary school in Shirahama Town, Wakayama prefecture. This targeted area includes a possible inundation area due to a massive earthquake occur in the Nankai Trough, and the maximum inundation depth is up to 10 m deep. The questionnaire survey conducted in all grades of Nishi-tonda primary school. Each family answered the questionnaire, and 221 answers in all returned (the collection rate is about 82 percent). The questionnaire has 26 questions regarding respondent's attribute, evacuation in the event of an earthquake, Nankai and Tonankai earthquakes, regional evacuation sites, gathering of information on disaster due to tsunami, and countermeasures on disaster mitigation. From the questionnaire results, it is found that public awareness of disaster prevention is potentially good, and some respondents recognize well that correct situational judgment for evacuation behaviors is important to ensure their safety in the event of an earthquake. On the other hand, some respondents answered that they don't know well about the regional evacuation sites and tsunami hazard map. Survey results showed that requests on transmission of relevant information and dissemination of knowledge have a majority as the countermeasures against damage due to tsunami. Even though the publicity of relevant information and knowledge is modest way as the countermeasures, constant publicity activities are important to raise the public awareness of disaster prevention.