ShelterBox.org is taking donations to deliver their rescue box thingies to New Zealand. I don't know how good of charity they actually are, but they seem okay.
If anyone wants to see how Twitter can be used for Corporate emergency communications, check out @TelecomNZ ( www.twitter.com/telecomnz ). Pretty awesome.
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Here's an interesting map showing this week's 6.3 quake and the September 7.1 magnitude quake. This most recent quake was a lot closer to Christchurch (10km v. 30km) and shallower (5km v. 33km).
Telecom had also started a campaign to collect "old fashioned" analogue landline phones, which do not require electricity, from around the country to distribute to people in Christchurch without power.
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