HumAID — puebla_mexico_earthquake_2017

A Twitter dataset of 2,015 tweets from puebla_mexico_earthquake_2017, collected by Alam et al. for puebla_mexico_earthquake_2017 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the puebla_mexico_earthquake_2017 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian category#Puebla earthquake

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10.0
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
mexicoearthquakecityhelpvictimspeopledonaterescuereliefaffectedampmexicoearthquakemagnitudethoughtsmexicosprayerseffortsbuildingssurvivorsdeathtollfuerzamexicohitneedcollapsedaiddeadkilledschoolsupporttoposdogsearchdevastatingrubblemexicanfollowingpraydonationshelping200friendsdamagedeadlycentraldonatingnewsteamchildrenfrida
Topic clusters

Topic 0

prayer
pray
thought
amp
affect
mexico
earthquake
family

Topic 1

relief
donate
help
donation
earthquake
mexico
fund
affect

Topic 2

building
damage
city
collapse
mexico
earthquake
powerful
video

Topic 3

rescue
search
continue
survivor
rescuer
effort
earthquake
mexico

Topic 4

thought
affect
heart
people
devastating
condolence
yesterday
mexico

Topic 5

kill
dead
people
magnitude
hit
earthquake
mexico
leave

Topic 6

help
need
earthquake
mexico
way
warning
emergency
lot

Topic 7

school
child
collapse
rescuer
girl
kill
trap
rescue

Topic 8

donate
help
need
thank
list
donation
way
good

Topic 9

fuerzamexico
fuerzaméxico
donate
victim
help
support
earthquake
mexico

Topic 10

toll
death
rise
official
late
breaking
mexico
climb

Topic 11

victim
donate
raise
unicef
donation
victims
earthquake
mexico
Show all 16 topics

Topic 12

magnitude
strike
shake
hit
strong
oaxaca
new
earthquake

Topic 13

dog
rescue
rubble
day
animal
city
earthquake
life

Topic 14

frida
dog
save
rescue
survivor
meet
far
hero

Topic 15

victim
help
mexico
earthquake
share
aid
solidarity
citys
Top hashtags
#mexico208
#earthquake148
#mexicoearthquake142
#fuerzamexico79
#prayformexico32
#fuerzaméxico26
#mexicocity25
#news19
#sismo17
#earthquakemexico16
#ayudacdmx15
#donate15
#help14
#mexicocityearthquake12
#cdmx10
#afp9
#morelos9
#prayersformexico8
#hurricanemaria7
#puertorico7

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-puebla_mexico_earthquake_2017
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
2,015
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2017 (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
well cited
16
influential citations
13% of all 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 — puebla_mexico_earthquake_2017 [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 — puebla_mexico_earthquake_2017. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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