Tehran Citizens Attitude about Earthquake

BackgroundIncreasing public preparedness is one of the important ways of earthquake risk and damage's reduction. So, for planning this, it needs to study people's awareness, performance and preparedness to earthquake in Tehran. This paper aims to assess Tehran citizen's attitude about earthquake.MethodsIn this observational field research, we selected 1600 family supporters above 15 years old in Tehran. The needed information is gathered and assessed by using survey questionnaires. The used statistics were means; percentages; meaningful tests of Chi-Square; T-test and Pearson.FindingsMore than 90 percent of responders have heard about earthquake possibility in Tehran. Only 45 percent believed its possibility very much; few responders (9.2%) knew about prevention and safety ways and 3.5% ones had enough information about it.ConclusionAlthough citizens of Tehran believe in the earthquake occurrence partly, they had inadequate awareness about the way of prevention and response.