Rapid damage assessment is one of the core tasks that response organizations perform at
the onset of a disaster to understand the scale of damage to infrastructures such as roads …

In May 2019, a false earthquake alert message was sent to the city of Ridgecrest, CA, in the
USA, an area that just 10 months prior had experienced a significant series of earthquake …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese social media platform Weibo created a special
super-topic for online users to seek help through posts or provide help through comments …

Formal response organizations perform rapid damage assessments after natural and human-
induced disasters to measure the extent of damage to infrastructures such as roads, bridges …

For over a decade, the field of crisis informatics has observed novel, ad hoc uses of social
media among citizens and digital volunteers while noting barriers that impede social media …

Natural events continue to take a heavy toll on human lives. Added to this are the challenge
of dynamic at-risk settings, uncertainty, and increasing threats, which demand holistic …

Supporting humans and artificial intelligence (AI) machines as teammates in flood
evacuation decisions relies on a carefully designed system with the capability for monitoring …

The significance of social media in crisis management is wellknown, as evident from the vast
literature generated in the last decade. Prior research has studied public behavior for …

ICTs are key to effective disaster response and recovery. This chapter focuses on how
mobile devices, social media, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of AI …

In August of 2020 Northern California experienced a dry lightning storm that ignited
numerous wildfires, including two adjacent to San Jose, California. The SCU and CZU …