摘要
In order to better understand the public’s perception to earthquake disaster and to provide the scientific basis for the formulation and implementation of the strategy of disaster loss reduction and regional earthquake mitigation,by the questionnaire survey and the deep interview, the authors systematically analyze the public’s perception and responses to the disaster of MS8.0 Wenchuan earthquake-stricken-Nanzheng in southern Shaanxi Province. The main conclusions are as follows: 1) the public’s earthquake disaster-coping skill is the worst, the public’s level of knowledge of earthquake disaster is poor, and the ability to keep calm and correctly spread information is low,while the ability of self and mutual rescue are better; 2) the overall accuracy and understanding of the earthquake knowledge for the public still needs to be strengthened; 3) an effective measure to enhance the synthesizing ability of earthquake disaster prevention and mitigation is to improve public’s perception to earthquake disaster,especially earthquake disaster-coping skills,and the capabilities of self and mutual rescue; and 4) the targeted propaganda of local government and the authoritative media’s reports are the main channel for the public’s access to the earthquake disaster information after earthquake,thus an effective way to reduce the earthquake disaster risk is to promote the publicity and transparency of the government’s information.