CrisisLex — 2013_Bohol_earthquake

A Twitter dataset of 1,000 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Bohol earthquake crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Bohol earthquake crisis, collected systematically across 26 events for comparative analysis. Intended for research into crisis informatics, disaster response, social media analysis, cross-crisis comparison, emergency communication patterns, situation awareness.

#Bohol#Crisis informatics#Crisislex#Philippines

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Analytics

8.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
philippinesearthquakeprayforvisayasboholcebuquakemagnitudeprayforboholcentralprayprayforcebugodhitspeoplevisayastollaffectedsafeprayersvictimsdeathhitearthquakephchurchkilledtodayletampmgadeadhopechurchesangmindanaohelpstrikesblessnewsterribleaftershockssupportmajorstrongthunderstormdearfamiliesoctloboc2013krungy21
Topic clusters

Topic 0

prayforvisayas
cebu
prayforbohol
mga
bohol
ang
prayforcebu
yung

Topic 1

cebu
bohol
earthquake
victim
philippines
magnitude
earthquakeph
october

Topic 2

philippines
hit
earthquake
magnitude
quake
tsunami
strike
threat

Topic 3

affect
prayer
earthquake
philippine
hope
pray
philippines
hear

Topic 4

prayforvisayas
god
help
prayer
lord
kababayan
remember
let

Topic 5

prayforvisayas
earthquakeph
let
affect
pray
earthquake
safe
reliefph

Topic 6

toll
death
rise
quake
philippines
central
dead
earthquake

Topic 7

church
loboc
bohol
historical
old
earthquake
amp
bless

Topic 8

central
kill
quake
philippines
hit
strike
report
magnitude

Topic 9

kill
dead
philippines
deadly
hit
quake
strike
earthquake

Topic 10

prayforcebu
prayforbohol
sad
news
safe
experience
guy
hear
Top hashtags
#prayforvisayas349
#prayforbohol116
#earthquake99
#cebu79
#bohol78
#prayforcebu76
#philippines45
#earthquakeph41
#prayforphilippines14
#prayforthephilippines13
#vprsd11
#prayforboholandcebu8
#reliefph8
#getwellsoondanielpadilla7
#earthqu6
#24oras5
#prayformindanao5
#quake5
#rescueph5
#tbt4
Top emoji
🙏57
😔11
😢4
😩4
😭4
😁3
💔2
😊2
😞2
😰2
🌸1
🏃1
👫1
💚1
💛1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Bohol_earthquake
Authors
Olteanu, Alexandra; Vieweg, Sarah; Castillo, Carlos
Year
2015
Source paper
What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/2675133.2675242
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
1,000
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 303.5 KB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{olteanu2015expect,
  author    = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos},
  title     = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises},
  year      = {2015},
  doi       = {10.1145/2675133.2675241},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  series    = {CSCW '15},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Olteanu, A., Vieweg, S., & Castillo, C. (2015). CrisisLex — 2013_Bohol_earthquake [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Olteanu, Alexandra, et al. CrisisLex — 2013_Bohol_earthquake. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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