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Table 5 Example of generated tweets

From: Using social media for sub-event detection during disasters

ID

Tweet

Lat./lon.

Est. lat./lon.

1

The building where I live was damaged

41.268683/ 16.419321

2

Evacuated from our apartment on Corso Vittorio Emanuele! #earthquake #Trani

41.276308/ 16.417803

3

Sewage smell in the area of Nassiriya square

41.278140/ 16.413285

4

Some buildings have been damaged during the #earthquake

5

The earthquake tonight was truly severe

  1. Tweet#1 is geotagged, tweets #2 and #3 contain information in the text that can be used to estimate coordinates (highlighted in bold), the others cannot be geolocated