TABLE 2—
Flashbulb Memories and Number of Preparedness Actions: Phone Survey of US Residents, July 6, 2011–September 9, 2011
| Event | Don’t Remember Anything | Remember a Few Details | Remember Many Details | Remember Many Details and Where I Was When Learned About Event |
| World Trade Center, 2001 | ||||
| NTL | 1.9 | 6.2 | 19.3 | 72.6 |
| SS | 1.9 | 9.1 | 20.9 | 68.1 |
| Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, 2005 | ||||
| NTL | 2.4 | 16.5 | 38.5 | 42.6 |
| SS | 2.1 | 18.5 | 42.0 | 37.3 |
| Offshore oil drilling platform blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010 | ||||
| NTL | 4.3 | 23.0 | 43.2 | 29.5 |
| SS | 5.1 | 26.1 | 41.1 | 27.7 |
| Coal ash spill in eastern Tennessee, 2008a | ||||
| NTL | 60.2 | 30.4 | 5.4 | 4.0 |
| SS | 51.0 | 31.3 | 10.3 | 7.5 |
| Tsunami in the Indian Ocean that affected Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, 2004 | ||||
| NTL | 11.5 | 37.8 | 30.3 | 20.4 |
| SS | 12.9 | 43.4 | 27.2 | 16.4 |
| Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power plants failure in Japan, 2011 | ||||
| NTL | 3.4 | 18.5 | 39.1 | 39.0 |
| SS | 3.7 | 20.6 | 38.2 | 37.5 |
Note. NTL = national; SS = site specific. For 6 events, Cronbach’s α = .734. Average number of respondents in the national sample was n = 847; for the site-specific survey, it was n = 1075.
a
Site-specific sample significantly higher than national sample at P < .05. (See Table A2, available as a supplement to the online version of this article at http://www.ajph.org, for Oak Ridge data.)