The effect of disaster knowledge and public attitudes on the preparedness to face landslide disaster

Abstract

Landslide often occur in Central Sulawesi province, on 28th of October 2018 an earthquake of 5 to 7.4 on the Richter scale (sr) rocked the city of Palu and along the Palu-Donggala, the epicenter of 27 km Northeast of Donggala and 80 km Northwest of Palu city. The problem was how much the effect of knowledge of disasters and community preparedness influenced the ability to face landslide natural disasters. This study aimed to analyze and test the influence of disaster knowledge and community attitudes towards landslide preparedness by using quantitative methods with an explanatory survey approach. The sample were 99 people from 116,084 people who live in Banawa along with Palu-Donggala and West Palu and Ulujadi Districts, Palu city. The test results used simple regression (t-test) in which there was a positive and significant influence on disaster knowledge and community attitudes towards preparedness. Meanwhile, based on multiple regression testing (F-test), it had a positive effect on disaster knowledge and community attitudes simultaneously and significantly towards landslide preparedness. The value of R square (R2) was 0.797, indicating that knowledge of disasters and community attitudes simultaneously influenced 79.7% of landslide preparedness, the remaining 20.3% was influenced by other variables which were not studied here.