This repository contains geotagged tweets for 15 natural disasters across the U.S.A, each corresponds to a disaster occurred in 2014-2015. Disasters folder contains geo tagged tweets for 15 disasters accross USA.
- California Fir
- Iowa Storm, Tornadoes and Flood
- Iowa Storm, Tornadoes and Flood 2
- Iowa Storm
- Jersey Storm
- Michigan Storm
- Napa Earthquake
- Newyork Storm
- Oklahoma Storm
- Texas Storm
- Vermont Storm
- Virginia Storm
- Washington Mudslide
- Washington Storm
- Washington Wildfire
Each dataset contains
- A set of hashtags used to crawl disaster-related tweets
- A file containing tweets in affected area
- Another file contains tweets in unaffected area
- FEMA affected/unaffected map
Hien To, Sumeet Agrawal, Seon Ho Kim, Cyrus Shahabi. On Identifying Disaster-Related Tweets: Matching-based or Learning-based?. The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (IEEE BigMM 2017). Laguna Hills, California, USA, April 19-21, 2017.
Disaster Declarations for [2014](https://www.fema.gov/disasters/grid/year/2014?field_disaster_type_term_tid_1=All ) and [2015](https://www.fema.gov/disasters/grid/year/2015?field_disaster_type_term_tid_1=All)
For inquiries please contact Hien To, or Sumeet Agrawal