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This is a telephone survey of San Francisco Bay Area residents' experience in and responses to the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989. The study has multiple objectives. First, to find out about San Francisco Bay Area residents' experiences after the earthquake, where they were, how they obtained information, whether their property was damaged or they experienced injury, what agencies they were in contact with, etc. Second, the study allowed the comparison of Bay Area residents' earthquake related knowledge, experience and behaviors in 1989 with those of Los Angeles county residents following the Whittier Narrows earthquake of October 1, 1987. O f interest is the extent to which Bay Area and Southern California residents differ in their level of preparedness, exposure to earthquake predictions, and knowledge of agencies involved in post-earthquake assistance. Third, the sample design allowed the comparison of experiences, behaviors, and after effects of persons in the high-impact area with those of other persons in the Bay Area in a modified case-controlled design. Finally, unlike past earthquake and most disaster surveys, this questionnaire includes both the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), a well-tested measure of psychological functioning designed for use in community studies and two measures of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that are currently under development by Terence Keane, Fran Norris and their colleagues.
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