Brief communication: Small-scale geohazards cause  significant and highly variable impacts on emotions

Ilyinskaya, Evgenia; Snæbjarnarson, Vésteinn; Carlsen, Hanne Krage; Oddsson, Björn

doi:10.5194/nhess-24-3115-2024

Articles | Volume 24, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3115-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3115-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 9

Brief communication

|

18 Sep 2024

Brief communication |

| 18 Sep 2024

Brief communication: Small-scale geohazards cause significant and highly variable impacts on emotions

Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Hanne Krage Carlsen, and Björn Oddsson

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Short summary

Natural hazards can have negative impacts on mental health. We used artificial intelligence to analyse sentiments expressed by people in Twitter (now X) posts during a period of heightened earthquake activity and during a small volcanic eruption in Iceland. We show that even small natural hazards which cause no material damage can still have a significant impact on people. Earthquakes had a predominantly negative impact, but, somewhat unexpectedly, the eruption seemed to have a positive impact.