Today humanity witnessed an atrocious part of the nature in the shape of atrocious catastrophe and Tsunami Waves in Japan. A massive earthquake jolted the whole Japan immediately followed by another natural disaster in the form of Tsunami Waves. The magnitude of the earthquake on Richter scale was 8.9.
This unimaginably ferocious fury of nature has brought all the people all over the world on Internet, Smartphones and Iphone applications in order to communicate with their loved ones. People of the entire world are looking worried about their loved ones living in Japan. Everyone is trying to use his gadgets like Computer, Smartphone and Iphone to collect disaster alert for their loved ones.
First we would like to tell you what Tsunami is before we tell you how you all can access your loved ones at this difficult time. Actually Tsunami is a Japanese word. Its English translation is “Harbor Waves”. It is a series of water waves of ocean. Tsunami strikes when large body of water gets displaced in the ocean or a large lake.
Its wavelength can range from 10 kilometers to 500 kilometers. So far its periods are concerned so periods can range up to an hour at least. In the profound ocean up to 4000 meters Tsunami Waves can play havoc at the velocity of 700 kilometers per hour at least.
Talking about the amplitude of Tsunami waves which is generated by underwater earthquakes it can be judged by the amount by which the floor of the sea is displaced. In the same way the wavelengths as well as the period of the Tsunami are determined by the size and the shape of the underwater disturbances caused.
So now it is time to talk about telling you all how you can find information about your loved ones. But DLN has also collected information for all of you so that you can contact your kith and kins living in Japan. In order to gather more information about it so you can log on to Google’s. 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami Crisis Response Page.
This page contains paramount information regarding indispansible emergency phone number and links to warnings in this regard. It also provides advisories, transit and information about blackout also. This page provides the whole information in real time. if you do not know the URL of the page so you can directly follow the link given here.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
This page also includes special features like “People Finder Tool”. This tool was launched by Google immediately after the recent catastrophe in the shape of earthquake in New Zealand. For using this tool all the users can fill the information or upload the photos about the people they are searching for. This tool can also be used for providing information about the missing people they have located.
All these disaster alert phone applications are seriously coming in handy now. If someone aspires to use some application using his Iphone so he or she can use Mappity Quakes named Iphone application. This application helps the user in getting real time information about the earthquakes all over the world.
A user can get information about the earthquake using interactive map within a list. This list can be sorted not only by time but by magnitude and distance from the current location of the user too.
But while using any Smartphone or Iphone Application in order to find information about disaster the user must be extremely cautious because ITsunami named application for Iphone received furious reviews from users. According to the users they did not get any information about the earthquake and Tsunami warnings in Japan and Hawaii.
