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Social media is widely used in emergencies, but the nature of the communication is poorly understood. We employed unsupervised topic modelling and sentiment analysis to analyse more than 80,000 Twitter tweets posted by users in Australia over a six-month period before, during and after the severe bushfires in 2019–2020, dubbed the ‘Black Summer’. While tweets about bushfire updates dominated, politics, donations and support, impacts and public opinion were also prominent themes. Social imp...

What if our channels of communication are disrupted by a natural or man-made disaster? Is your community association prepared for those circumstances? Do you have primary and secondary lines of communications established in your community association?

In our modern world we take our ability to communicate seamlessly and instantly for granted. We communicate through more services and devices than ever before.

The Jakarta provincial government opened a disaster literacy center at the Jakarta Fire Management and Rescue Office building to improve disaster education ...

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), established in 1986, is a non-profit, autonomous, regional organization, international in status and non-political in management, staffing, and operations. ADPC has been created for scientific, educational, developmental, and humanitarian purposes that work to build the resilience of people and institutions to disasters and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific region. ADPC has more than 34 years of working experience in Asia along with t...

SITREP #4 South Kalimantan Floods - Thursday, 21 January, 2021 Format I Key Information Floods inundated 11 Regencies/Cities in South Kalimantan, among others Banjar Regency, Tanah Laut regency, Banjarbaru City, Tapin Regency, Hulu Sungai Selatan Regency, Balangan Regency, Tabalong Regency, Hulu Sungai Tengah Regency, Banjarmasin City, Batola City, Hulu Sungai Utara Regency. Until Monday (18/1/2021) of 11 regencies/city, 54,960 houses have been inundated, 70,166 people have bern displaced. (sou...