Resources on Asia’s deadly tsunami

The World Wide Web has been active in the aftermath of the deadly tsunami in Asia.

Below is a list of links to help you get started navigating online resources:

Firsthand accounts/blogs

• A list of South Asian bloggers — courtesy of BoingBoing.net.
• Individual accounts from BBC — The BBC has an interesting collection of personal stories.
• From Phuket — Weblog from Rick Von Feldt, who was in Phuket during the tsunami. Includes firsthand experiences, stories and photos.
• Urban75 — a firsthand account from the Maldives.
• From The Washington Post’s Michael Dobbs — "As the waters rose at an incredible rate, I half expected to catch sight of Noah's ark," he wrote in the Dec. 27 edition of the Post.
• From Sri Lanka —This person is blogging by SMS messaging.
• Arthur C. Clarke's account — Sir Arthur Charles Clarke is a British author and inventor, perhaps most famous for his science fiction novel "2001: A Space Odyssey." He lives in Sri Lanka and writes about surviving the tsunami.
• Phuket tsunami survivor stories
• India Uncut
• A relief worker's diary — An MSNBC Citizen Journalist: A volunteer chronicles a week in Nagapattinam, India.
• Phuket resort escapes damage — A hotel employee writes about his experience at JW Marriott on Dec. 26, and the varying levels of destruction on Thai beaches.
• NBC's Ann Curry — "It's become very difficult hard not to cry virtually every day."

Photo gallery

• Daily slide shows from MSNBC.com
• Photos courtesy of the Navy
• Blog: The weird things people donate
• Before and after photos of Banda Aceh, via Wikipedia
• Satellite photos from DigitalGlobe
• Vakaruge.com
• Pbase.com

• NBC News producer Marisa Buchanan's photos

Video footage

• Rocket Boom — has a collection of videos and slide shows.
• Waxy.org
• Latest video from MSNBC.com

Survivors, missing lists

• Missing persons database —  Search for missing persons on a database, set up following the tsunamis.
• Tsunami survivors at Thammasat University
• Phuket International Hospital — Some Thai hospitals are listing their patients from the tsunami, as well as their status.
• Krabi hospital in Thailand
• Sri Lanka site for survivor info
• Bulletin board for info on survivors in Thailand
• Bulletin board run by Lonely Planet travel guides
• Missing persons appeals — BBC is also publishing appeals for any information on loved ones.
• How the entire town of Leupueng, Sumatra, has been obliterated
• Elders' sage advice saves entire village
• An entire newspaper staff in Indonesia City missing in wake of tsunami

How to help

• MSNBC.com: Ways to help disaster victims
• MSNBC.com: More how to help links
• SEA-EAT South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog — News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts. A group of people in Bombay, India, started the  blog.
• ProPoor Blog — Information on grass-roots ways to help.
• Indonesia HELP — Aid and donations information for earthquake and tsunami victims in Aceh and North Sumatra (Indonesia).
• Amazon.com is collecting for the American Red Cross — The site includes a live tally on the amount of donations received.
• For help sorting legitimate charities and organizations, check out Benjamin Rosenbaum's site or NBC reporter Tom Costello's article.

Reactions

• Citizen journalists from Asia, U.S. write in their thoughts
• Keith Olbermann on the unimaginable death toll
• MSNBC analyst Walid Phares on how jihadists are spinning the tsunami

You can find full coverage of the latest news on the tsunami aftermath here on MSNBC.com.

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