@article{ref1,
title="Using social media data to understand and assess disasters",
journal="Natural hazards",
year="2014",
author="Guan, Xiangyang and Chen, Cynthia",
volume="74",
number="2",
pages="837-850",
abstract="This paper contributes to the understanding of disasters from the perspective of social media activities. We develop a measure based on Twitter activities that can be used to quantify the evolution of disasters and thus demonstrate temporal-spatial patterns of Twitter activities particularly near the coastline and in large urban areas during Hurricane Sandy. We also show a close relationship between hurricane damages and Twitter activities. Our findings suggest the potential of using social media activities for rapid damage assessment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0921-030X",
doi="10.1007/s11069-014-1217-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-014-1217-1"
}