Leveraging Twitter to gauge evacuation compliance: Spatiotemporal analysis of Hurricane Matthew

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Martín, Yago ^a   Li, Zhenlong ^a   Cutter, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SHELTER; EVACUATION; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOUTH CAROLINA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; TIME FACTOR; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

CYCLONIC STORMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; GEOGRAPHY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85026460124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181701     Document Type: Article

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