[dpacmittal]

This was a huge earthquake. Aftershocks are still continuing and have been said to continue for next 2 to 3 days although they will be in descending order. People are advised to stay alert and be out in open areas. People should also stockpile food, water, batteries. Also, please use your phone less (save charge for emergency), and unclog the network for people trying to reach their loved ones.

I'm from Nepal (not living there anymore but have tons of family and friend back at home). Hoping everyone is safe, and asking people to NOT PANIC in any situation.

Some resources: Google people finder - https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake

Helpline numbers in nepal: http://i.imgur.com/e0mRxgz.jpg

Helpline number in India:

[phone]

[phone]

[phone]

[ohashi]

Facebook has a nice feature safety check I just got notified about: https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/nepalearthquake/

[praneshp]

It's a little bit annoying though. Friends and others living in random parts of the world are marking themselves safe. Not all of them are narcissistic, so I wonder if the feature is not very intuitive?

Not taking away how useful it is though. Even with all the noise it was reassuring to know friends in the tremor area (which included a large part of North India) were safe.

[ohashi]

I haven't noticed much abuse. I lived in Nepal for a couple years and have a lot of friends still there. It was nice to see all of them marking themselves as safe versus the random display of facebook status updates saying they were ok. Dont know whose update I saw or didn't see.