Haiti Quake People Finder

Haiti Quake People Finder is a Facebook application created to socially collect, update, and share information on the survivors and victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12th, 2010.

RSS feed of the survivors and victims. If you add the app to your Facebook profile then you can select survivors and victims who are friends and family and have a central place to see updates about them.





Consider donating to the relief effort via President Clinton’s Foundation Haiti Earthquake Relief.

First California earthquake experience

I just experienced (Tuesday October 30th) my first real earthquake since I have been living in California. I was seating at Starbucks in Sunnyvale and getting ready to head to the gym after a long day working remotely, the whole place starting moving back at forth at around 8:05PM PDT.

It appears that the quake's epicenter was in Alum Rock, CA (about 15 miles from San Jose) and the official time was 8:04PM PDT and the magnitude was 5.6.

The first tremor lasted about 4 to 6 seconds. Enough to get everyone out of their seats and realizing we were in the middle of a quake... Most people starting moving to the exit door. I stayed at my seat since I was not about to let go of my Mac :-)

Then it happened again and then again. Though the subsequent ones were shorter and shorter.

Not sure what damages, if any, this little one caused---cannot see anything from here, all seems well. Regardless, one things for sure, you come out of this feeling like you are floating and living in a surreal state (still feel it more than 5 minutes since). Not sure if this is scary or cool...