Major IT giants are assisting in the search for survivors in the earthquake in Nepal. Facebook, Google, Viber and Twitter do not charge for calls from Nepal and started collecting money to help victims.
As informs The Wall Street Journal, the world-famous social network Facebook has activated a service Safety Check allows users in the disaster area, select the notification that they're all normal. When you start this service to all friends of the user in the social network will be able to see that the person is in good health.
Popular messenger Viber disable billing for users in Nepal for international calls to landline and mobile telephones, and users from other States for calls in the reverse direction. The same method went and Google, who had renounced cash for the calls in the news in the Voice service.
Also, Google launched a number of additional features to help you find the location of survivors. For example, in Nepal began to work the service Person Finder, which allows you to publish and search for information about missing friends and relatives. This service was created in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti.
Also, microblocks Twitter helps raise funds for non-profit organizations in Nepal. It is noted that previously in Nepal at the best of times access to the Internet and mobile access were limited.
For fresh information, the number of victims in the earthquake in Nepal exceeded 6.9 thousand people. The number of people killed - more than 3.7 million people. The main disaster of a magnitude of 7.9 points fell on the cities of the plain Kathmandu. April 25, tremors also were felt in the Indian capital and its Eastern, Northern and North-Eastern States, killing more than 60 and injured 250 people, as well as in Myanmar and Bangladesh and in the Tibetan Autonomous region of China. Indian meteorological Department continues to record the aftershocks of lesser intensity - magnitude from 3.2 to 3.8.
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