Tokyo, March 13: Google enables users to share information about missing people or create a record for a new person missing in Japan’s recent earthquake-tsunami.
Using Japanese Quake Person Finder users can share the new information they receive on the missing. The site currently has 6,100 records.
This is similar to Google’s efforts after the earthquake in Haiti and the Christchurch area of New Zealand, The Washington Post reported.
The site also provides links to news and other resources, such as train and blackout information, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
For those seeking shelter, there is a Google Map showing all the shelter sites in Tokyo as well as how full they are.
The Japanese people have been asked to stay off the phone lines to allow emergency calls to go through. As a result, many are taking to Twitter and Facebook to inform family and friends about their situation.
Mashable reported that tweets in Tokyo had topped 1,200 per minute.
First-person accounts have been uploaded to YouTube’s Citizen Tube, showing dramatic footage from, during and after the quake.
Hundreds are feared dead in the aftermath of the quake and tsunami, and the Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported more than 100,000 may be missing.
—-Courtesy: Presstv