(P1-96) Social Context of Natural Disaster

Natural Disaster Based on Social Data

Social media becomes a communicating channel during a natural disaster for detecting disaster events because people share their opinions, feelings, activity during the disaster through the Twitter. Twitter is not simply a platform for broadcasting information, but one of informational interaction. So, we use this platform for mining various disaster relevant tweets during a natural disaster. We...

Social Media-Based Identifier for Natural Disaster

This article proposes a conceptual framework design tool to implement Secure Place Locator (SPL) that can help the process of Disaster Management (DM) through utilizing social media, in which this software can inform disaster site and safe point for casualities evacuation in real time with Geographic Information System (GIS) aid. The discussion is limited to the system design, with design metho...

Context Aware Collaborative Computing Model for Natural Disaster Management Systems

Nowadays, natural disaster management is considered one of the critical issues, where many governments are spending a huge amount of money to master it. And to help these governmental bodies in managing this kind of situation, we used the concept of collaborative computing, to introduce an approach for mobiles to collaborate in order to act as helper agents for other ones with limited resources...

Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third class. British passengers were more likely to perish than members of other nations. This extreme event rep...

Children’s vulnerability to weather shocks: A natural disaster as a natural experiment. Social Science Research Network