Japan Earthquake On The Web

Magnitude 8.4 earthquake hit Miyagi and east Japan, around 14:51 March 11th.

Phone/cellphone network mostly stopped in east Japan. Twitter and Skype are okay. Yahoo! Japan top page was always dependable to get the news and alerts.

Twitter users are retweeting emergency phone services which do not consume person-to-person connection ability.

One is dial 171, on which you can leave a message at the phone center (family and friends can listen the message by phone number). English instruction is here.

Cellphone carriers provide bulletin board services. From your i-mode/ezweb/Yahoo! Ketai, you may post that you are safe (or other info) to your family and friends. To check it from PC, here is for Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank Mobile. (details [J])

People’s photos from Twitter timeline.

Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo

Crack in the ground (location unknown)

Odaiba (waterfront) Tokyo

roof-tiles break down from Japanese-style houses. Nakano, Tokyo

Our buddy Serkan Toto was at New Tokyo International Airport. People evacuated outside.

An insider of Japan’s public TV NHK’s twitter account(@NHK_PR) had approved an ustream user broadcast its earthquake report by ‘his/her decision’, which is not allowed usually. It was welcomed by net users. Later it seemed to be approved by the organization.

(keep updating earthquake related news from Japanese web. Regular news and photos/videos of Tohoku area should be checked on TV and big news media)

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