Earthquake risk perception and communication: A review of empirical research

A review of the state of the art has been conducted on earthquake risk perception (RP) and risk communication (RC). The review comprises 29 empirically based peer-reviewed papers on earthquake RP and RC from the electronic online databases 'Scopus' and 'Web of Science'. The results show that there is a need to a theoretical sound approach to the statistical analyses and the need to be more explicit when presenting the results. A longitudinal study may be a way forward. There is a need of research on RC. Some discussion is presented on methodological issues and finally, some future research direction is given.