We sincerely thank you for thoroughly examining our manuscript and providing constructive comments to guide our revision. We have tried our best to revise the manuscript according to your kind and construction comments and suggestions. The responses to the comments are given below.  

Point 1: Line 23 1.7 people around the world were ...

Response 1: We have accepted your suggestion and revised the statement of this sentence. The revised part is as follows: “ According to a survey by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, in the ten years from 2005 to 2014 alone, about 1.7 billion people around the world  were affected by various disasters, among which the Chinese people suffered the most disasters, while the United States sustained the most losses”

Point 2: Line 124. Change In contrast, to Additionally.

Response 2: We have accepted your suggestion to change In contrast to Additionally. The revised part is as follows: “Additionally, people with disabilities usually experience the highest risk levels.”

Point 3: Line 180 Three Hypotheses not Four.

Response 3: We have corrected the error. The revised part is as follows: “Based on the above discussion, we developed three hypotheses; each hypothesis covers the three conceptualizations of preparedness”

Point 4: Line 233 taking steps to prepare to help you get through a disaster in your area?" remove second to.

Response 4: Thanks for your advice, we have cited your recommended and remove the second “to” in the Line 233. The revised part is as follows:  "How much would taking steps to prepare help you get through a disaster in your area?"

Finally, we would like to thank you again for taking the time to review our manuscript, and we hope our correction can get your approval.

We sincerely thank you for thoroughly examining our manuscript and providing constructive comments to guide our revision. We have tried our best to revise the manuscript according to your kind and construction comments and suggestions. The responses to the comments are given below.  

Point 1: Page 1, L 21 f.: “…and the possibility of climate and weather disasters has increased exponentially” – the possibility of disasters (how defined?), or the losses increased? Or is it the magnitudes and frequencies? – Please specify, as this is a bit too simple. It makes a difference in disaster preparedness if we focus on increasing frequencies or magnitudes, or both (and this is of course also hazard-dependent.

Response 1: Thank you for your suggestion. We have modified the expression of this sentence according to your suggestion. The revised part is as follows: “Global climate change has led to an exponential increase in the frequency and loss of natural disasters such as floods, droughts, tsunami, wildfires, thunderstorms, and hurricanes (Rao et al., 2022). According to a survey by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, in the ten years from 2005 to 2014 alone, about 1.7 billion people around the world were affected by various disasters, among which the Chinese people suffered the most disasters, while the United States sustained the most losses (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015)”

Point 2: Page 2, L 1 ff.: “…preparedness of households is one of the most effective ways of mitigating the impact of disasters (Gargano et al., 2015; Keim, 2008), and previous studies unmistakably confirm that the emergency preparedness of households significantly reduces the negative effects of disasters and ensures that people adequately support themselves and their families…” – other studies, however, conclude that there are some limitations and constraints, see as an example the works by Attems et al. (2020a; 2020b). – Please differentiate your statements here a bit. There are various trigger mechanisms that might (or not) encourage individual risk behaviour (Bamberg et al., 2017; Van Valkengoed and Steg, 2019).

Response 2: The expression of this sentence is indeed inappropriate. We have accepted your suggestion and revised the sentence. The revised part is as follows: “Adequate emergency preparedness of households is one of the most effective ways of mitigating the impact of disasters (Gargano et al., 2015; Keim, 2008), and previous studies have also shown that fully effective disaster preparedness measures can reduce the negative effects of disasters and ensures that people adequately support themselves and their families within 72 h after a disaster (Levac et al., 2012; Malmin, 2021; Rao et al., 2022).”

Point 3: Page 6, L 180: As already indicated by referee #1 there are only three hypotheses in this manuscript.

Response 3: We have corrected the error. The revised part is as follows: “Based on the above discussion, we developed three hypotheses; each hypothesis covers the three conceptualizations of preparedness”

Finally, we would like to thank you again for taking the time to review our manuscript, and we hope our correction can get your approval.