HumAID — kaikoura_earthquake_2016

A Twitter dataset of 2,195 tweets from kaikoura_earthquake_2016, collected by Alam et al. for kaikoura_earthquake_2016 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the kaikoura_earthquake_2016 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian category#Kaikoura#New zealand

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7.7
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
eqnzearthquaketsunaminewzealanddamagewarningwellingtonaftershockssafekaikouraampaffectedthoughtsnewzealandquakemagnitudepeoplestaysouthislandcoasthelpareaseastfollowinghopechristchurchwaterearthquakesthreathitnorthmorningemergencyprayerstodaybuildingspowerfulfriendsnearnewsnightlivebreakingstrongcivilupdatedamageddefence
Topic clusters

Topic 0

tsunami
warning
east
coast
warn
beach
threat
eqnz

Topic 1

new
zealand
tsunami
earthquake
magnitude
hit
strike
powerful

Topic 2

earthquake
safe
hope
zealand
new
affect
newzealand
thought

Topic 3

kaikoura
help
eqnz
relief
damage
tourist
earthquake
effort

Topic 4

help
donate
eqnz
cross
red
support
need
emergency

Topic 5

aftershock
eqnz
feel
strong
shake
roll
wellington
stop

Topic 6

thought
affect
safe
eqnz
quake
stay
earthquake
think

Topic 7

wellington
building
damage
cbd
eqnz
close
street
ferry

Topic 8

prayer
pray
thought
zealand
new
earthquake
affect
newzealand

Topic 9

damage
road
eqnz
highway
crack
bridge
state
major

Topic 10

kill
new
zealand
dead
powerful
people
earthquake
confirm

Topic 11

siren
tsunami
sound
hutt
christchurch
eqnz
low
warn
Top hashtags
#eqnz1.3K
#earthquake212
#newzealand166
#tsunami88
#kaikoura59
#wellington51
#nz39
#nzearthquake36
#breaking33
#christchurch22
#nzeq14
#staysafe14
#news13
#aftershocks12
#nzquake12
#flooding9
#chch8
#eq8
#quake8
#e7

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-kaikoura_earthquake_2016
Authors
Alam, Firoj; Ofli, Ferda; Imran, Muhammad
Year
2020
Source paper
HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
2,195
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2016 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/ChenBeici/SocialED_datasets/tree/main/raw_data/HumAID link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 321.9 KB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

HumAID: Human-Annotated Disaster Incidents Data from Twitter with Deep Learning Benchmarks
Firoj Alam, U. Qazi, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021

126
citations
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16
influential citations
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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{alam2020humaid,
  author    = {Alam, Firoj and Ofli, Ferda and Imran, Muhammad},
  title     = {HumAID: A Human-Annotated Dataset for Disaster Response},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management},
  series    = {ISCRAM '20}
}

APA

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

Alam, F., Ofli, F., & Imran, M. (2020). HumAID — kaikoura_earthquake_2016 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116

MLA

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

Alam, Firoj, et al. HumAID — kaikoura_earthquake_2016. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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