CrisisLex — 2013_LA_airport_shootings

A Twitter dataset of 1,032 tweets, collected by Olteanu et al. via Twitter API during the 2013 LA airport shootings crisis. Each record contains tweet text, crisis type, country, event name. The dataset is notable for its tweets from the 2013 LA airport shootings 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.

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Analytics

8.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.7
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
laxshootingairportsuspecttsalosangelesshooterlaxshootingvictimsterminalpeopleshotpoliceagentkilledbreakinggunmannewscustodyinternationalprayersinjuredriflepaulampcianciareportssaystodayfamilylatestofficerupdatesecuritywoundedincidentcnnbrkliveshotsmultiplereportedflightslosangelesofficialscnnfiredeadfiredlax_official
Topic clusters

Topic 0

angeles
los
airport
international
shoot
shooting
report
gunman

Topic 1

shooter
gun
rifle
face
weapon
lax
photo
floor

Topic 2

custody
suspect
multiple
act
police
shooting
victim
shoot

Topic 3

tsa
agent
duty
kill
die
wound
breaking
want

Topic 4

ciancia
paul
old
year
identify
suspect
enforcement
official

Topic 5

prayer
thought
victim
affect
pray
involve
laxshooting
amp

Topic 6

evacuate
shot
fire
live
report
airport
breaking
watch

Topic 7

officer
tsa
kill
source
federal
set
employee
return

Topic 8

dead
report
terrorist
shooter
break
reportedly
michael
nsa

Topic 9

international
angeles
los
airport
save
deal
pic
hotel

Topic 10

dad
police
suspect
suicidal
apparently
send
text
attack

Topic 11

family
prayer
today
injure
agent
victim
kill
tsa
Show all 22 topics

Topic 12

sepulveda
blvd
los
ford
con
decide
laxshoote
incident

Topic 13

losangele
sale
tweet
falseflag
laxshooting
like
lax
scene

Topic 14

time
scary
think
pray
omg
involve
hear
airport

Topic 15

director
shoot
terminal
affect
airport
runway
sports
run

Topic 16

flight
airline
open
check
entrance
departure
ticket
travel

Topic 17

police
incident
begin
terminal
info
official
confirm
alert

Topic 18

patriot
shooter
amp
member
teaparty
wing
right
angry

Topic 19

conference
wait
laxshooting
press
verify
happen
info
unconfirmed

Topic 20

cali
music
losangeles
les
lax
usa
angeles
los

Topic 21

assault
rifle
open
fire
man
pull
bag
lone
Top hashtags
#lax351
#laxshooting117
#losangeles25
#breaking22
#tsa21
#music16
#la15
#sf15
#bayarea14
#blogs14
#cali14
#oakland14
#oc14
#seo14
#smm14
#turnup14
#vegas14
#wp14
#cia12
#news12
Top emoji
😔4
🙏4
👊3
🙌2
🌝1
👌1
💔1
💪1
🔪1
🔫1
😁1
😋1
😡1
😳1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
crisislex-2013_LA_airport_shootings
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
1,032
Text corpus
tweet text
Languages
en
Collected
2012-2013 (2010s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://crisislex.org/ link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 342.8 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_LA_airport_shootings [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_LA_airport_shootings. 2015, doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242.

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