The necessity of Information Triage in Large-Scale Disasters

Abstract

This paper considers necessity of Information Triage in the time of a large-scale disaster. Social media has become a promising candidate for gathering information under emergent situation including earthquake and torrential rainfall. However, information explosion,which means the quantity of information increase rapidly, and made rescue and support activity difficult in the case of Kumamoto earthquake. For the effective rescue and support activity, Information Triage to arrange useful information is necessary.