Social media was underutilised in disaster management practices, as it was not seen as a
real-time ground level information harvesting tool during a disaster. In recent years, with the …

Natural hazard-related disasters are disruptive events with significant impact on people,
communities, buildings, infrastructure, animals, agriculture, and environmental assets. The …

The rapid damage assessment plays a critical role in crisis management. Collection of timely
information for rapid damage assessment is particularly challenging during natural …

Social media data are increasingly being used in disaster management for information
dissemination, establishment of situational awareness of the “big picture” of the disaster …

Social media, particularly Twitter, is increasingly used to improve resilience during extreme
weather events/emergency management situations, including floods: by communicating …

In recent years, social media emerged as a potential resource to improve the management
of crisis situations such as disasters triggered by natural hazards. Although there is a …

Social media is increasingly becoming a formal tool of communication across the world. For
example, state emergency organisations maintain social media channels to share …

Using tweets extracted from Twitter during the Australian 2010-2011 floods, social network
analysis techniques were used to generate and analyse the online networks that emerged at …

Social media, with its ability to record human activities, has gained increasing attention from
various fields. In this study, we developed a framework to assess disaster impacts with social …

Social media data have emerged as a new source for detecting and monitoring disaster
events. A number of recent studies have suggested that social media data streams can be …