Mediterranean coasts are prone to tsunamis due to high seismicity in some well-known areas near plate margins. However, tsunamis have a low frequency of occurrence despite having highly destructive potential. The low frequency of occurrence and historicity of the most destructive events lead to minimizing or neglecting this risk. Past research identified socio-demographic and spatial factors that may affect tsunami risk perception. This research is based on CATI survey (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview) to a sample of 5842 respondents as to investigate whether and how risk perception and risk knowledge were affected by a major event such as the 1908 Reggio Calabria Messina tsunami, by making a comparison between areas hit by that event and unaffected areas, also providing some explanatory hypotheses. Despite differences between Calabria and Sicily, data anyway show higher levels of tsunami risk perception in the area affected by the 1908 event, along with a major role of interpersonal sources, playing a relevant role in in-formation gathering and understanding. Research also suggests the need to better integrate dif-ferent sources of knowledge to improve people’s understanding as to effectively cope with tsunami risk.

Something still remains: factors affecting tsunami risk perception on the coasts hit by the Reggio Calabria - Messina 1908 event (Italy) / Cerase, Andrea; Cugliari, Lorenzo. - In: SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 2071-1050. - 3:15(2023), pp. 1-27. [10.3390/su15032787]

Something still remains: factors affecting tsunami risk perception on the coasts hit by the Reggio Calabria - Messina 1908 event (Italy)

Andrea Cerase
;
Lorenzo Cugliari
2023

Abstract

Mediterranean coasts are prone to tsunamis due to high seismicity in some well-known areas near plate margins. However, tsunamis have a low frequency of occurrence despite having highly destructive potential. The low frequency of occurrence and historicity of the most destructive events lead to minimizing or neglecting this risk. Past research identified socio-demographic and spatial factors that may affect tsunami risk perception. This research is based on CATI survey (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview) to a sample of 5842 respondents as to investigate whether and how risk perception and risk knowledge were affected by a major event such as the 1908 Reggio Calabria Messina tsunami, by making a comparison between areas hit by that event and unaffected areas, also providing some explanatory hypotheses. Despite differences between Calabria and Sicily, data anyway show higher levels of tsunami risk perception in the area affected by the 1908 event, along with a major role of interpersonal sources, playing a relevant role in in-formation gathering and understanding. Research also suggests the need to better integrate dif-ferent sources of knowledge to improve people’s understanding as to effectively cope with tsunami risk.
2023
tsunami; risk communication; risk perception; local knowledge; media; scientific communication; 1908 Reggio Calabria - Messina Earthquake and tsunami
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Something still remains: factors affecting tsunami risk perception on the coasts hit by the Reggio Calabria - Messina 1908 event (Italy) / Cerase, Andrea; Cugliari, Lorenzo. - In: SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 2071-1050. - 3:15(2023), pp. 1-27. [10.3390/su15032787]
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