Evaluation of Shiraz High School Students' Knowledge for an Hazards Earthquake Encountering

Document Type : Applied Article

Authors

1 Master of crisis Management, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

2 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Planning, University of Shiraz

Abstract

Background: Eighty percent of the fatalities caused by the earthquake were in six Countries-China, Iran, Peru, the former Soviet Union, Guatemala, and Turkey. Shiraz as one of the metropolitan cities of Iran, located in the seismic zone of Zagros mountain with high seismic and continual potential. Studies show that once every 20 years after 1925, earthquakes had occurred with magnitude 5.5 - 7.5 in the region.
Methods: This research had done with the purpose to assess the students' knowledge for encountering the earthquake hazard. Case studies included the students of Shiraz schools and data collection tool was a self-administered questionnaire. According to Cochran formula, the sample size was 380 students. 400 questionnaires were distributed by Stratified Random Sampling method. The research method was descriptive and SPSS software was used to analyze the data. The research questions were answered by means of the t-test, one-way ANOVA, repeated measurements ANOVA.
Findings and Conclusion: The findings had shown that 22.1% 0f the students had scored between 0.20 - 0.40, 53.3% had scored between 0.40 - 0.60 and 25.1% had scored between 0.60 - 0.80. This level of knowledge with regard to the serious risk of an earthquake was lower than standard. The students’ knowledge about emergency measures during an earthquake was higher than other measures. The mean score of knowledge was 0.50 (from 1.00 points).
 
 
 

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Environmental Management Hazards
Volume 3, Issue 4
January 2017
Pages 331-344

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