Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

Fighting Earth's degradation and safeguarding the environment are subjects of topical
interest and sources of hot debate in today's society. According to the United Nations, there …

During the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), people use social media
to acquire and exchange various types of information at a historic and unprecedented scale …

Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, plays a critical role in disaster management by
propagating emergency information to a disaster-affected community. It ranks as the fourth …

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

Social media offers participatory and collaborative structure and collective knowledge
building capacity to the public information and warning approaches. Therefore, the author …

During natural disasters, emergency communication systems become overloaded, and
people are forced to turn to social media to make requests for help. This study employs …

Could social media data aid in disaster response and damage assessment? Countries face
both an increasing frequency and an increasing intensity of natural disasters resulting from …

Abstract People increasingly use Social Media (SM) platforms such as Twitter and Facebook
during disasters and emergencies to post situational updates including reports of injured or …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …