Abstract:

The Disaster Research Center (DRC) undertook a nationwide study of private citizens who or,-anize themselves in groups to prepare for or to recover from disasters.  Part of that research looked for citizen groups preparing for earthquakes.  We found, relatively and absolutely, few earthquake preparedness citizen groups.  To explain this finding, we detail an explanatory -,model which specifies the conditions necessary for the general emergence of citizen groups, and apply it to the likelihood of earthquake preparedness groups.  The implicat4-ons for earthquake planning in general and some of the atypical characteristics, careers, and consequences of such groups are also noted.
 

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