HumAID — pakistan_earthquake_2019

A Twitter dataset of 1,958 tweets from pakistan_earthquake_2019, collected by Alam et al. for pakistan_earthquake_2019 crisis. Each record contains tweet text, humanitarian category label, train/dev/test split. Human-annotated crisis tweets from the pakistan_earthquake_2019 event. Suitable for crisis informatics, humanitarian response, text classification.

#Crisis informatics#Humaid#Humanitarian category#Pakistan

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9.3
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
12.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
earthquakepakistanallahkashmirmirpurpeopleinjuredampsafeajkprayersazadaffectedareashelpprotectmagnitudeprayvictimsdeadameenrescuedamageazadkashmirhopenewsstay300familiesarmyearthquakeinpakistansavedeathquakediedjatlantodaylivesislamabadneedindianparts100killedblesstollindialahorereportedthoughts
Topic clusters

Topic 0

allah
forgive
earthquake
bless
recite
sin
mercy
soul

Topic 1

safe
pray
earthquake
hope
stay
prayer
safety
people

Topic 2

pakistan
magnitude
jolt
northern
injure
earthquake
dead
kill

Topic 3

pakistan
safe
earthquake
allah
islamabad
stay
protect
lahore

Topic 4

rescue
army
operation
relief
troop
direct
team
area

Topic 5

kashmir
india
pakistan
unga
issue
prime
modi
turkey

Topic 6

mirpur
injure
road
damage
building
collapse
report
earthquake

Topic 7

kashmir
occupy
indian
know
communication
kashmiris
internet
blackout

Topic 8

mirpur
earthquake
protect
pray
allah
prayer
azadkashmir
safe

Topic 9

injure
death
dead
people
far
earthquake
die
report

Topic 10

tabdeeli
amp
firdousashiqawan
joke
shameful
ashiq
disgusting
condolence

Topic 11

injure
magnitude
dead
pakistan
kill
rise
kashmir
mirpur
Show all 17 topics

Topic 12

family
condolence
pakistan
today
lose
earthquake
victim
express

Topic 13

kashmir
affect
pray
earthquake
people
hope
safe
prayer

Topic 14

protect
save
allah
earthquake
haarp
almighty
protection
swt

Topic 15

safe
allah
stay
earthquake
sound
ameen
swt
massive

Topic 16

jatlan
damage
canal
near
road
mangla
mirpur
bridge
Top hashtags
#earthquake1.6K
#pakistan525
#kashmir235
#mirpur207
#azadkashmir105
#earthquakeinpakistan79
#ajk68
#lahore37
#islamabad32
#india31
#pakistanarmy25
#unga24
#mirpurazadkashmir23
#karachi22
#news22
#jatlan21
#earthquakealert17
#iok17
#breaking15
#jhelum15

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
humaid-pakistan_earthquake_2019
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
1,958
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2019 (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, 383.6 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 — pakistan_earthquake_2019 [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 — pakistan_earthquake_2019. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18116.

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