TECH SEARCH: Chinese rescue team members working on a laptop during a rescue operation after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. People across the globe have taken to social media sites such as Facebook and Google to look for missing relatives and pass on news of survival in Nepal.
NEW DELHI/LONDON: German development worker Caroline Siebald and her boyfriend Charles Gertler, an American glaciologist, were on a rafting trip in Nepal when the earthquake struck and initially panicked about how to let their families know they were safe.
After about 30 attempts, Gertler, 25, managed to get a phone call through to his mother in Massachusetts in the United States, and she registered them as safe on Facebook's "Safety Check". Within minutes, their friends and families saw the news.
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