CrisisLex — 2012_Typhoon_Pablo

A Twitter dataset of 1,000 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2012 Typhoon Pablo crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2012 Typhoon Pablo 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.

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Analytics

8.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
typhoonpablophpablobophaphilippinesmindanaovictimspraypeoplesafehelpaffected2012ancalertsangdost_pagasahitdecdeaddeathtolldavaosuperamppagasadelmissingvisayashttpletnewssignalcdostormabscbnnewsareascitylocatedreliefphsurigaoweathereyendrrmcsurlandfallsoutherngodhitspraying000
Topic clusters

Topic 0

ang
mga
bagyong
lang
lakas
pabloph
bagyo
wag

Topic 1

god
pray
strength
hope
prayer
light
devastate
pabloph

Topic 2

visayas
safe
mindanao
pray
safety
especially
stay
fellow

Topic 3

con
que
pablo
para
hoy
del
david
dad

Topic 4

rain
cebu
typhoonpablo
naman
ang
kay
wind
landfall

Topic 5

signal
cdo
del
occidental
palawan
norte
sur
oriental

Topic 6

update
information
important
pablo
crisis
response
follow
google

Topic 7

image
super
bopha
satellite
focus
category
space
station

Topic 8

victim
donation
donate
accept
cash
help
foundation
effort

Topic 9

locate
eye
hinatuan
surigao
sur
del
roxas
northwest

Topic 10

water
need
davao
reliefph
food
help
oriental
pls

Topic 11

sad
pabloph
banana
pwede
star
begin
lol
youtube
Show all 33 topics

Topic 12

southern
home
evacuate
philippines
hit
south
powerful
slam

Topic 13

near
signal
area
landfall
luzon
gustiness
storm
sustain

Topic 14

let
pray
prayer
victim
pablo
affect
typhoon
plan

Topic 15

affect
thousand
philippines
bopha
pray
family
friend
condolence

Topic 16

strong
sendong
expect
calm
prepare
safe
typhoon
pablo

Topic 17

class
suspend
school
walangpasok
university
level
high
ateneo

Topic 18

emergency
press
cdo
update
important
evacuation
forecast
track

Topic 19

miss
wake
missing
village
philippines
crew
find
office

Topic 20

ndrrmc
injure
dead
miss
latest
report
hurt
missing

Topic 21

donate
red
help
reliefph
way
affect
branch
join

Topic 22

filipina
nasa
bopha
centro
otro
posible
iss
central

Topic 23

china
inyo
nyo
hoy
rin
lahat
lang
naman

Topic 24

toll
death
rise
bbc
wake
news
philippine
bopha

Topic 25

tropical
bulletin
cyclone
warning
weather
alert
december
storm

Topic 26

kill
hurricane
sandy
philippines
twice
pound
sheilaaliens
philipines

Topic 27

toll
death
pass
bury
search
bbc
bad
survivor

Topic 28

immediate
palau
damage
casualty
video
philippine
report
notice

Topic 29

liz
neisloss
hit
flash
decade
flood
bad
powerful

Topic 30

strong
sendong
pagasa
rainfall
intense
bopha
typhoonpablo
south

Topic 31

oriental
davao
landfall
currently
vicinity
max
kph
case

Topic 32

victim
million
dswd
right
raise
plea
urge
rhbill
Top hashtags
#pabloph453
#pablo90
#bopha65
#reliefph27
#philippines24
#typhoon21
#cdo20
#walangpasok15
#typhoonpablo11
#mindanao10
#26
#fb6
#keepsafe6
#rescueph6
#news5
#pray5
#34
#bukidnon4
#filipinas4
#anc3
Top emoji
😔3
🙏3
💖2
👈1
👐1
👼1
😀1
😉1
😊1
😐1
😠1
😰1
🙌1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2012_Typhoon_Pablo
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, 289.8 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 — 2012_Typhoon_Pablo [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 — 2012_Typhoon_Pablo. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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