CrisisLex — 2013_Manila_floods

A Twitter dataset of 1,000 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Manila floods crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Manila floods 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.

#Crisis informatics#Crisislex#Manila#Philippines

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Analytics

9.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
maringphreliefphfloodphmanilarescuephmaringanghabagatprayforthephilippinesfloodhelpbaharedamptropicalstormreliefsafeplsusedonationsmetrophilippinesmgavictimsfloodsrainsareammdaaffectedheavyneedsafenowwalangpasokdonaterainulanancalertsgoodstimerainfallstayalertcityhashtagmonsoonweatherletpagasathank
Topic clusters

Topic 0

ang
maringph
ulan
bagyong
naman
habagat
arianna
lang

Topic 1

flood
manila
deep
recto
update
passable
rizal
taft

Topic 2

reliefph
donation
unitas
volunteer
need
good
rice
relief

Topic 3

maringph
hotline
safe
stay
emergency
sagip
kapamilya
assistance

Topic 4

maringph
rain
typhoon
storm
typhoonmaring
crisis
map
tropical

Topic 5

prayforthephilippine
safe
rain
safenow
floodph
pray
morning
lord

Topic 6

rescueph
mga
kailangan
para
ang
cavite
village
san

Topic 7

baha
manila
ako
kasi
ang
daw
wala
bukas

Topic 8

donation
accept
reliefph
today
operation
donate
enderun
maringph

Topic 9

use
hashtag
rescue
rescueph
need
know
aid
find

Topic 10

tropical
responsibility
storm
area
leave
expect
maring
bulletin

Topic 11

floodph
baha
ang
flood
daw
ako
pasong
pang
Show all 17 topics

Topic 12

red
text
donate
smart
victim
globe
pls
help

Topic 13

safenow
rescue
use
walangpasok
floodph
suspension
rescueph
work

Topic 14

rainfall
metro
pagasa
warning
issue
moderate
yellow
rain

Topic 15

retweet
time
prayforthephilippines
link
care
come
maringph
let

Topic 16

monsoon
enhance
system
weather
tropical
storm
rainfall
warning
Top hashtags
#maringph399
#reliefph184
#floodph171
#rescueph144
#prayforthephilippines96
#habagat84
#maring69
#safenow34
#walangpasok33
#unitas18
#maringupdates11
#typhoon11
#typhoonmaring11
#flood9
#baha7
#manila6
#marikinariver6
#mmda6
#philippines6
#weatheralert5
Top emoji
😔7
😭5
😣4
🙏4
😋3
😞3
🌊2
👍2
🔊2
🍻1
🎣1
🐊1
😘1
😥1
😱1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Manila_floods
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, 300.1 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_Manila_floods [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_Manila_floods. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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