CrisisLex — 2013_Russia_meteor

A Twitter dataset of 1,442 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Russia meteor crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Russia meteor crisis, collected systematically across 26 events for comparative analysis. Intended for research into crisis informatics, disaster response, social media analysis, cross-crisis comparison, emergency communication patterns, situation awareness.

#Chelyabinsk meteor#Crisis informatics#Crisislex

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Analytics

8.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
meteorrussiarussianmeteorметеоритrussianчелябинскinjuredhitpeopleshowervideometeoriteчточелябинскеasteroidchelyabinskearthruredaktorделесамомупалоblastexplosioninjuresstrikenasafootage000hundredshitsskyyoutubeampexplodesnewstodaywowrt_comuralsexplodedlikebbcbreakingcrazylovewindowsvideos2013gotmorningregion
Topic clusters

Topic 0

injure
people
nearly
blast
fall
report
explosion
hurt

Topic 1

video
footage
incredible
catch
russia
wave
hits
meteorite

Topic 2

russianmeteor
post
ball
need
help
view
particular
close

Topic 3

russian
story
meteor
real
terrifying
warning
airburst
light

Topic 4

love
girl
russianmeteor
fact
like
great
big
omg

Topic 5

russianmeteor
падения
метеорита
que
het
твиттер
нет
россии

Topic 6

injure
blast
central
news
russia
hurt
meteor
thousand

Topic 7

asteroid
flyby
today
close
fly
link
earth
astronomer

Topic 8

челябинск
минут
как
метеорит
чем
таобао
купить
мне

Topic 9

rusia
del
que
una
humor
los
метеорит
real

Topic 10

hit
cbs
february
instead
school
explodes
russia
meteor

Topic 11

cry
wtf
scary
russianmeteor
crazy
truly
totally
canada
Show all 42 topics

Topic 12

fuck
hit
nye
pray
bill
warming
pretty
global

Topic 13

earth
century
large
hit
object
soviet
north
korea

Topic 14

chelyabinsk
суровый
любимой
звезду
романтик
пообещал
своей
какой

Topic 15

laugh
joke
lol
russianmeteor
act
quit
hard
haha

Topic 16

ministry
interior
spectacular
people
shower
injure
update
russianmeteor

Topic 17

possibly
reaction
tweet
great
photo
hope
lol
response

Topic 18

упало
самом
деле
челябинске
что
челябинск
метеорит

Topic 19

метеорит
доставила
чем
voy
про
que
что
russia

Topic 20

yang
jatuh
tak
rusia
transformer
mobile
russia
meteor

Topic 21

cam
dash
car
capture
use
record
turn
wonder

Topic 22

chelly
уже
фото
челябинск
челябинска
это
челябинского
сегодня

Topic 23

injury
central
shower
shatter
ural
mountain
official
damage

Topic 24

team
rocket
break
glass
building
siren
blast
panic

Topic 25

streak
ural
mountains
sky
friday
speed
injure
southern

Topic 26

упало
самом
деле
челябинске
что
челябинск
метеорит
его

Topic 27

nasa
academy
sciences
estimate
ton
big
weigh
thought

Topic 28

уже
почему
эти
метеорит
астероида
осталось
том
ещё

Topic 29

упало
самом
деле
челябинске
что
челябинск
метеорит

Topic 30

chelyabinsk
shockwave
fear
local
sound
meteorite
building
time

Topic 31

beautiful
learn
discuss
footage
come
listen
expert
good

Topic 32

fragment
scientist
find
origin
expert
meteorite
spectacularly
track

Topic 33

fri
safe
game
time
free
facebook
morning
throw

Topic 34

clean
start
strike
english
international
blast
thousand
russia

Topic 35

boom
sonic
strong
impressive
feb
throw
cause
remind

Topic 36

dramatic
inside
office
shower
video
airburst
like
capture

Topic 37

shower
apocalypse
shatter
clip
kent
window
use
power

Topic 38

death
believe
sure
saiyans
arrive
russianmeteor

Topic 39

movie
new
art
coincidence
fox
kind
probably
smash

Topic 40

woulda
cold
stone
way
hear
want
hit
russia

Topic 41

begin
region
fall
labor
replace
russian
damage
acre
Top hashtags
#russianmeteor406
#метеорит252
#челябинск132
#meteor66
#meteorite44
#russia39
#chelyabinsk37
#chelly17
#asteroid11
#rusia8
#2012da147
#news7
#cnn5
#meteorito5
#breaking4
#russian4
#armageddon3
#da143
#oneofmyexes3
#russianmeteorite3
Top emoji
👈4
😱3
😳3
👽1
😬1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Russia_meteor
Authors
Olteanu, Alexandra; Vieweg, Sarah; Castillo, Carlos
Year
2015
Source paper
What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/2675133.2675242
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
Records
1,442
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Russia · Europe (inferred: named in the description)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 724.0 KB 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{olteanu2015expect,
  author    = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos},
  title     = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises},
  year      = {2015},
  doi       = {10.1145/2675133.2675241},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing},
  series    = {CSCW '15},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Olteanu, A., Vieweg, S., & Castillo, C. (2015). CrisisLex — 2013_Russia_meteor [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Olteanu, Alexandra, et al. CrisisLex — 2013_Russia_meteor. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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