摘要：Following the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004
there was heightened international awareness
of this hazard and strategies were developed to
improve tsunami warning systems worldwide.
Australian emergency management and scientific
agencies such as EMA, Geoscience Australia,
the Bureau of Meteorology and state emergency
management departments released warning and
behaviour information through websites, and
the development of warning systems has been
ongoing. Despite the enormity of the tsunami,
research on tsunami awareness has been limited.
The tsunami warning that took place on 2nd
April 2007 was a rare opportunity to record how
people responded. Surveys carried out by the
Centre for Disaster Studies showed that most
(76%) people heard the warning while it was
current during the morning of 2nd April, primarily
before 0930, but that most people sought no
extra information (70%) and took no action
(53%). Townsville was significantly more laid back
than Cairns, but only 35 per cent considered
future tsunami warnings to be unlikely or are not
bothered about them. People called for more
information and advice. There were strong levels
of concern about the warning, future warnings
and knowledge of correct actions. However,
significant proportions of residents did not know
whether or not they lived in a storm surge zone.
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