#Earthquake: Twitter as a Distributed Sensor System

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 124-147

  Crooks, Andrew ^a   Croitoru, Arie ^a   Stefanidis, Anthony ^a   Radzikowski, Jacek ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISTRIBUTED SENSOR SYSTEM; EAST COAST; GEOGRAPHICS; HYBRID FORMS; LOCALISATION; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIFIC LOCATION; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873282297     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2012.01359.x     Document Type: Article

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