CrisisLex — 2013_Brazil_nightclub_fire

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

#Brazil nightclub fire#Crisis informatics#Crisislex

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Analytics

9.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
brazilfirenightclubsantamariakissboatequetragedysad245prayingaffectedsantahearmariaddlovatoincêndiotragédiapeoplemortosparanãodeusmaiskilledvítimaspordeadumabrasildaspessoasfamíliaspoliceestákillscoraçãodoslutosoutherntristemeu232deathfamiliarestolltodosrio200died
Topic clusters

Topic 0

santa
maria
boate
kiss
incêndio
perícia
tragédia
morto

Topic 1

affect
hear
sad
tragedy
pray
nightclub
brazil
fire

Topic 2

santamaria
que
hoje
todosdesejamforçasasantamaria
todo
beliebersdesejamforçasasantamaria
ajudar
tem

Topic 3

kiss
boate
que
ver
não
foi
ingresso
ela

Topic 4

boate
kiss
incêndio
foi
morte
morto
vítima
que

Topic 5

dead
people
brazil
fire
nightclub
kill
video
crowded

Topic 6

tragédia
essa
santamaria
que
tragediaemsm
luto
ajudar
para

Topic 7

prayforsantamaria
heart
prayer
love
santamaria
todosdesejamforçasasantamaria
estrelas
madre

Topic 8

affect
hear
sad
pray
tragedy
nightclub
fire
brazil

Topic 9

das
vítimas
vítima
famílias
vitima
deus
santamaria
tragédia

Topic 10

update
die
maria
santa
police
people
southern
fire

Topic 11

polícia
boate
kiss
donos
dono
sócio
ficha
sócios
Show all 19 topics

Topic 12

people
die
lose
life
brazil
know
nightclub
heart

Topic 13

toll
official
death
rise
breaking
nightclub
brazil
fire

Topic 14

kill
fire
nightclub
brazil
sweep
score
sweeps
exit

Topic 15

socorro
donate
day
pelo
morreu
menina
pediu
kiss

Topic 16

arrest
owner
band
member
police
hold
people
nightclub

Topic 17

santamaria
nyc
pêsame
manhã
luto
real
palavra
meus

Topic 18

porta
celular
havia
bombeiro
pegou
palavra
mãe
corpo
Top hashtags
#santamaria355
#brazil49
#forçasantamaria18
#prayforbrazil17
#todosdesejamforçasasantamaria17
#prayforsantamaria16
#tragediaemsm16
#luto15
#brasil13
#prayforsa10
#news7
#addseguidores5
#beliebersdesejamforçasasantamaria5
#br5
#pr5
#boatekiss4
#brasildesejaforçasasvitimasdesantamaria4
#dt3
#fire3
#mcce3
Top emoji
🙏3
😢2
😨1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_Brazil_nightclub_fire
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
Brazil · Latin America (inferred: named in the description)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 451.2 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_Brazil_nightclub_fire [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_Brazil_nightclub_fire. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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