Emergency situations arising out of natural disasters like tsunami, earthquakes, floods,
hurricanes or man-made ones like terror strikes, riots, accidents, etc. cause tremendous …

The prevalence of flooding events and the associated risk in the urban areas is an
increasingly important issue of global significance, although it is more critical for the …

Social media has been established in many larger emergencies and crises. This process
has not started just a few years ago, but already 15 years ago in 2001 after the terrorist …

Social media tools are integrated in most parts of our daily lives, as citizens, netizens,
researchers or emergency responders. Lessons learnt from disasters and emergencies that …

Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the use of social media in emergency and crisis events
has greatly increased and many studies have concentrated on the use of ICT and social …

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 analytics has become prominent in natural disaster management. In spite of a
large variety of metadata fields in social media data, four dimensions (ie space, time, content …

This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences,
reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented computing, distributed problem …

Abstract The Boston Marathon bombing story unfolded on every possible carrier of
information available in the spring of 2013, including Twitter. As information spread, it was …

In recent times, hurricanes Matthew, Harvey, and Irma have disrupted the lives of millions of
people across multiple states in the United States. Under hurricane evacuation, efficient …