Questionnaire Survey on Actual Activities of Independent Disaster Prevention Organizations －On 9 Cities and Towns in Western Region of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.－

Recently， the high possibility for a large earthquake in Tokai， Tonankai and Nankai regions， increased the disaster prevention activities. It is desired to be aware of such earthquake disaster. The reduction of damage in earthquake disaster can be assured by hard and soft prevention measures． Soft measure， namely maintains the cooperation between municipalities and local residents or independent voluntarily disaster prevention organization （self－support，or government supported）to point out the important disaster prevention measures and required activities． In this research， the actual condition of the independent disaster prevention organizations of 9 cities and towns in western region of Kanagawa prefecture have been observed by questionnaire survey． The main objective was to observe the facts about sharing level of the local disaster prevention-related information， which is fundamentally， promotes mutual understandings between citizens and local governments