Table 4.

First action in the case of a disaster

Imagine that a situation in which there is a high risk of a disaster happening soon, and you feel this disaster may cause serious harm to your family or friends. What is the first thing you would do?	Romania	Malta
Call the emergency services	69%	32%
Call family/friends	21%	54%
Go to your neighbours	1%	0%
Use social media to inform family/friends	1%	4%
Submit information via social media to authorities	1%	2%
Get more information via the internet	2%	3%
Get more information from social networks	0%	2%
Turn on the television/radio	1%	0%
Other/not sure/no answer	4%	4%

Note: there were no statistically significant differences between female and male responses, or between age groups.

Source: authors.