CrisisMMD — Mexico_Earthquake

A Twitter dataset of 1,237 tweets referencing 1,380 images by URL, collected by Alam et al. for the Mexico Earthquake 2017 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, engagement metrics (retweets, favorites, replies, quotes), user metadata, media attachments, crisis code. The dataset is notable for its multimodal dataset from the Mexico Earthquake 2017 crisis, collected from Twitter during the event with full Twitter API metadata. Intended for research into crisis informatics, multimodal learning, disaster response, image classification, tweet filtering, engagement analysis. This copy (the SocialED redistribution) holds the tweet objects only: the images are referenced by URL and the image files are not included, and neither are CrisisMMD's human annotations (informativeness, humanitarian category, damage severity).

#Crisis informatics#Disaster response#Humanitarian

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Analytics

Content metrics

1,237 records scored

hashtag countavg 0.75 / 7
0std 1.257
1.2K
With media
100.0%
Visual density
10.0
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
mexicoearthquakecitymexicoearthquakevictimshelpreliefrescuenewsnewpeoplequakemagnitudehitschooldeadlyhitssurvivorsrubbledevastatingampbuildingsaiddeathcentraldeadfollowingpowerfuldogtrappedfridatolleffortsworldphotosfamilykilledtoday2017donaterescuerssearch200collapsedchildrenkillsstrongdamagelivesstrikes
Topic clusters

Topic 0

help
relief
victim
earthquake
donate
mexico
aid
volunteer

Topic 1

mexicoearthquake
mexicoquake
help
share
victim
support
friend
need

Topic 2

death
toll
kill
central
mexico
earthquake
dead
rise

Topic 3

family
prayer
mexico
church
earthquake
people
prophecy
baptism

Topic 4

school
child
trap
girl
rubble
rescuer
mexico
search

Topic 5

city
building
damage
photo
mexico
earthquake
collapse
hit

Topic 6

frida
rescue
hero
save
mexico
people
earthquake
life

Topic 7

map
earthquake
usgs
mexico
nasa
magnitude
september
sismo

Topic 8

new
hit
strike
magnitude
oaxaca
southern
strong
mexico

Topic 9

thought
earthquake
mexico
think
claim
sep
interview
news
Top hashtags
#mexicoearthquake132
#mexico118
#earthquake77
#news20
#mexicoquake12
#mexicocity11
#usrc11
#fuerzamexico9
#sismo7
#breaking6
#frida5
#oaxaca5
#prayformexico5
#puertorico5
#socialmedia5
#world5
#cdmx4
#dogs4
#f14
#florida4

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisismmd-Mexico_Earthquake
Authors
Alam, Firoj; Ofli, Ferda; Imran, Muhammad
Year
2018
Source paper
CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Natural Disasters
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14983
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
1,237
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2017 (2010s)
Region
Mexico · Latin America (inferred: named in the description)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/ChenBeici/SocialED_datasets/tree/main/raw_data/CrisisMMD link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 6.4 MB 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{alam2018crisismmd,
  author    = {Alam, Firoj and Ofli, Ferda and Imran, Muhammad},
  title     = {CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Natural Disasters},
  year      = {2018},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  series    = {ICWSM '18},
  publisher = {AAAI Press}
}

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. (2018). CrisisMMD — Mexico_Earthquake [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14983

MLA

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

Alam, Firoj, et al. CrisisMMD — Mexico_Earthquake. 2018, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14983.

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