A dataset of Ya'an Earthquake based on social media

The Ya'an Earthquake occurred on April 20, 2013 in Beijing time. It was located in Lushan County, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, and the magnitude of this earthquake was 7.0. As of 14:30 on the 24th, the earthquake caused a total of 196 people dead, 21 missing and 11470 injured. With the development of information and communication technology，based on previous research, we find that micro-blog system had shown great potential in promoting emergency response because they provided an easily accessible information platform on which disaster information could be rapidly organized and shared to a large number of people. Based on this, taking the Ya'an Earthquake as an example, this dataset was collected the Sina-Weibo data of Sichuan Province after 7 days of the Ya'an Earthquake. Sina-Weibo, a platform for information sharing and exchanging for entertainment and leisure life services for the general public, was launched in August 2009. Sina-Weibo can be used by users to search, inquire and publish post-earthquake-related blog. The public can communicate on Sina-Weibo, express their feelings, and can also provide some better suggestions and other functions.