CrisisLex — 2013_Spain_train_crash

A Twitter dataset of 1,000 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 Spain train crash crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 Spain train crash 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.

#Crisis informatics#Crisislex#Spain train crash

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Analytics

10.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
trentrainspainsantiagocompostelaespañaaccidentedelcrashquepormuertoslosdriverlasconvideoparadeadpeoplecristianodescarrilamientomaquinistavíctimaskilledanimogaliciaderailsderailmentmenosheridosaccidentgaliciainjuredmásdescarrilóderailedfamiliaresconductornewsnoticiadescarrilargransangreenterétrastristezaafectadosdescarriladofamiliasa3noticias
Topic clusters

Topic 0

derail
train
spain
driver
kill
derailment
dead
people

Topic 1

las
santiago
compostela
accidente
tren
víctimas
familias
familiare

Topic 2

españa
accidente
tren
por
del
herido
que
los

Topic 3

españa
conductor
muerto
tren
descarrilamiento
velocidad
menos
por

Topic 4

descarrilar
muerto
menos
tras
santiago
compostela
pasajeros
muertos

Topic 5

crash
train
spain
dead
die
tragedy
injure
accident

Topic 6

pray
spain
train
victim
family
today
accident
thought

Topic 7

santiago
compostela
tren
descarrilamiento
del
descarrilado
que
descarrila

Topic 8

santiago
compostela
train
spanish
spain
near
crash
victim

Topic 9

video
momento
así
del
descarriló
compostela
santiago
tren

Topic 10

video
moment
footage
crash
train
spain
watch
impact

Topic 11

maquinista
del
españa
accidentado
facebook
tren
hablaba
que
Show all 14 topics

Topic 12

gran
noticia
animogalicia
con
que
del
accidente
españa

Topic 13

phone
driver
investigator
time
train
crash
spain
black
Top hashtags
#animogalicia49
#españa42
#spain20
#santiago12
#galicia11
#galiciadeluto9
#accidentesanti6
#tragediasantiago6
#train6
#tren6
#news4
#respect4
#ánimogalicia4
#accidentesantiago3
#alvia3
#colombia3
#internacional3
#noticias3
#prayforspain3
#tragedy3
Top emoji
🙏2
👹1
😞1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Spain_train_crash
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
1,000
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Spain · 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, 397.6 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_Spain_train_crash [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_Spain_train_crash. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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