The purpose of this research was to verify the results and the effects of the previous studies, under a different experimental setting, based on various ages and each gender; an elderly-male, a young-male, and a young-female group. This research also experimentally investigates the impact on physiological and psychological status under two scenarios; one is receiving the notice information before the 15 seconds of the seismic ground motion, and the other is receiving the Earthquake Early Waning, coincident with the seismic ground waves.
The main results, compared with the previous research, are summarized as follows:
1) An elderly-male is not likely to hold a scare to an earthquake, nor hold a necessary awareness of daily countermeasure for an earthquake. However, the actual seismic motion affects them physiologically, therefore their consciousness level toward the necessity of daily countermeasure as well as the prevention against an earthquake disaster tends to be slightly improved.
2) A young-female is likely to hold a scare to an earthquake psychologically, especially tends to become hopeless and feel a deep anxiety at the time of an earthquake, while they do not get affected physiologically by the seismic ground motion.
The clear impact, based on the difference of the grace time with a notice information, was found under only one category out of nine categories in total.
3) In an elderly-male group, a significant difference was found under the STAI, in the case that the notice information is distributed either before 15 seconds or 0 seconds. The result has made clear that their state of anxiety tends to be relieved by the notice information with a grace time.
