Location-aware big data from social media have been widely used to quantitatively characterize natural disasters and disaster-induced losses.It is not clear how human activities collectively respond to a disaster.In t...Location-aware big data from social media have been widely used to quantitatively characterize natural disasters and disaster-induced losses.It is not clear how human activities collectively respond to a disaster.In this study,we examined the collective human activities in response to Typhoon Hato at multi spatial scales using aggregated location request data.We proposed a Multilevel Abrupt Changes Detection(MACD)methodological framework to detect and characterize the abrupt changes in location requests in response to Typhoon Hato.Results show that,at the grid level,most anomaly grids were located within a radius of 53 km around the typhoon trajectory.At the city level,there are significant spatial difference in terms of the human activity recovery duration(230 h on average).At the subnational level,the absolute magnitude of abrupt location request changes is strongly correlated with the typhoon-induced economic losses and the population affected.展开更多
基金the National Key R&D Program of China(grant number 2017YFC1503003)the National Key Research and Development Program(grant number 2017YFB0503605)the National Mountain Flood Disaster Investigation Project(SHZH-IWHR-57).
文摘Location-aware big data from social media have been widely used to quantitatively characterize natural disasters and disaster-induced losses.It is not clear how human activities collectively respond to a disaster.In this study,we examined the collective human activities in response to Typhoon Hato at multi spatial scales using aggregated location request data.We proposed a Multilevel Abrupt Changes Detection(MACD)methodological framework to detect and characterize the abrupt changes in location requests in response to Typhoon Hato.Results show that,at the grid level,most anomaly grids were located within a radius of 53 km around the typhoon trajectory.At the city level,there are significant spatial difference in terms of the human activity recovery duration(230 h on average).At the subnational level,the absolute magnitude of abrupt location request changes is strongly correlated with the typhoon-induced economic losses and the population affected.