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Table 1 Municipality-level features per event. The first eleven features are calculated over the set of tweets that correspond to a specific municipality. The last feature corresponds to the municipality population

From: Nowcasting earthquake damages with Twitter

Feature

Description

NUMBER OF TWEETS

No of tweets produced in the municipality

TWEETS NORM

No of tweets produced in the municipality

divided by the number of users in the municipality

AVERAGE WORDS

Avg. tweet length (in number of words)

AVERAGE LENGTH

Avg. tweet length (in number of chars)

Fraction of tweets with…

QUESTION MARKS

…question marks

EXCLAMATION MARKS

…exclamation marks

UPPER WORDS

…uppercase words

Fraction of tweets containing the …

HASHTAG SYMBOLS

# (hashtag) symbol

MENTION SYMBOLS

@ (mention) symbol

RT SYMBOLS

RT symbol

WORD EARTHQUAKE

…word “earthquake”

POPULATION

Municipality population