Abstract
Historical data have demonstrated that earthquakes can happen any time of the day and night. Drills may help communities to better prepare for such emergencies. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 4 October to 20 November 2017, in Mexico City. The sample size was 2400. The addressed research questions were “what factors predict the likelihood that respondents would report that they agree on conducting mass evacuation drills: (a) any time of the day and (b) any time at night?” The logistic regression technique was employed to identify the factors leading to the outcome. In relation to (a), five variables were significantly associated with the outcome, i.e., age, frequency of drills, warning time, knowledge on what to do, and “perception vulnerability city”. Regarding (b), five variables were also significantly associated with the outcome variable, i.e., age, level of education, frequency of drills, negative emotions, and fear of house/building collapsing. More generally, several drills should be conducted any time of the day and night; further, 50% of them should be announced and 50% unannounced. Furthermore, the time of earthquake drills should be randomly selected. In this way, we may just match the spatial–temporal dimension of an earthquake emergency. It is hoped that the findings will lead to better preparedness of the residents of the capital city during an earthquake occurrence.
Highlights
There is not a single day without news on disasters in the mass media recently
The following three research questions needed to be addressed [20]: 1. What factors predict the likelihood that respondents would report that they agree on conducting mass evacuation drills on September 19 yearly?
The section is in relation to the following research question: “What factors predict the likelihood that respondents would report that they agree on conducting mass evacuation drills at any time of the day?” The results of a binary logistic regression analysis showed that five variables were significantly related to the outcome, i.e., (a). age, (b) frequency of drills, (c) warning time (SASMEX), (d) knowledge of what to do, and (e) perception vulnerability city (PVC)
Summary
There is not a single day without news on disasters in the mass media recently It appears that governmental organizations are all aware of the importance of preparing for mass emergencies, for example, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s mantra “prepare, plan, be informed” [1] and similar governmental and international agencies’ safety policies worldwide [2,3,4,5,6,7]. Drills aid in assessing the effectiveness of an emergency response plan [16,17,18,19] They contribute to the process of identifying, for example, gaps, flaws, and shortfalls of safety policies and evacuation procedures. A drill can be an effective method for training all of those involved in conducting the exercises [16,17]
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