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Articles | Volume 25, issue 5
Articles | Volume 25, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1681-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1681-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 5
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12 May 2025
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Social sensing a volcanic eruption: application to Kīlauea, 2018

James Hickey, James Young, Michelle Spruce, Ravi Pandit, Hywel Williams, Rudy Arthur, Wendy Stovall, and Matthew Head

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This paper shows a very useful analysis of social media activities during volcanic eruptions. The authors used social sensing of Twitter posts to track social action and reaction changes throughout the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea, Island of Hawaiʻi.
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Protecting lives and livelihoods during volcanic eruptions is the key challenge in volcanology. Analysing social media usage during volcanic crises can help us better understand the impacts of volcanic eruptions and how warning messages are received and actioned, to eventually better protect those people and their livelihoods. Our work shows how social media data could be used in real time during a volcanic crisis to learn more about volcanic eruptions.
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