CrisisMMD — Iraq_Iran_Earthquake

A Twitter dataset of 496 tweets referencing 597 images by URL, collected by Alam et al. for the Iraq-Iran 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 Iraq-Iran 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#Multimodal

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Analytics

Content metrics

496 records scored

hashtag countavg 1.07 / 7
0std 1.437
496
With media
100.0%
Visual density
9.0
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
earthquakeiraniraqbordervictimspeoplehelpmagnitudekermanshahaidampdeathhitskillednewstolldeadlydeaddevastatinghitquakesurvivors2017killsinjuredpowerfulkurdistanregionreliefcondolenceshundredsisraellivenearstrongvideorescuestrikeswesternaftermathkuwaitmassiveofferssayssunday300450areadamagegod
Topic clusters

Topic 0

iran
earthquake
regime
destroy
kill
injure
west
deadly

Topic 1

video
iraq
border
live
aftermath
hit
iran
earthquake

Topic 2

iraq
magnitude
earthquake
sulaymaniyah
strike
november
hit
damage

Topic 3

condolence
solidarity
pray
iranearthquake
iran
amp
prayer
leader

Topic 4

survivor
relief
help
iran
rescue
earthquake
victims
aid

Topic 5

toll
death
update
injure
rise
official
dead
news

Topic 6

kurdistan
map
cause
iran
kurdish
earthquake
report
iraq

Topic 7

kermanshah
province
god
city
iran
visit
people
earthquake

Topic 8

kill
border
people
iraq
quake
region
powerful
iran

Topic 9

offer
israel
aid
victim
reject
cross
red
turn

Topic 10

kill
news
iraq
uae
kurdish
dead
hit
world

Topic 11

victim
humanitarian
iraq
newzealand
auckland
help
red
rush
Top hashtags
#earthquake114
#iran107
#iraq35
#kermanshah14
#news13
#iranearthquake7
#زلزله7
#kurdistan6
#breaking5
#breakingnews5
#prayforiran4
#الجزائر4
#algeria3
#auckland3
#earthquakeiraq3
#foxnews3
#humanitarian3
#humanrights3
#newzealand3
#prayforiraq3

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisismmd-Iraq_Iran_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
496
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2017 (2010s)
Region
Iraq · Middle East & North Africa (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, 2.1 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 — Iraq_Iran_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 — Iraq_Iran_Earthquake. 2018, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.14983.

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