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Brief communication: Small-scale geohazards cause significant and highly variable impacts on emotions
Evgenia Ilyinskaya
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School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson
Miðeind ehf, Reykjavik, Iceland
Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hanne Krage Carlsen
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Björn Oddsson
Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, Reykjavik, Iceland
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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.
Natural hazards can have negative impacts on mental health. We used artificial intelligence to...
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