Analyses of the Factors that Influenced Residents' Decision to Evacuate caused by the LPG Leak Accident at Higashinada Ward, Kobe City just after the Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake of 1995

Abstract

A LPG leak accident occurred at a plant in Higashinada ward, Kobe city, due to the Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake of 1995. In order to make sure residents' safety, Kobe municipal authorities issued evacuation counsel to 72,000 people around the plant on 18 January, 1995. Two years later, a questionnaire on the residents was conducted to grasp the situation of the communication of the counsel and the residents' evacuation. The results of the questionnaire are as follows; 89 percent of respondents got to know the evacuation counsel on that day, and 78 percent among them executed to evacuate caused by the accident.