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Six ways that you can help tsunami relief efforts in Japan and the Pacific: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/11/five-ways-you-can-help-earthquake-and-tsunami-victims-in-japan/

Also, Google People Finder, for those of you with friends and family in Japan: http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/

More Japan links.

BBC has the best live coverage in English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

NHK streaming: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv

Shakemap is tracking the quakes, which are still ongoing in Japan: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/list.php?y=2011&n=global

CharityNavigator, to make sure that your donations actually go to a good cause: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=1221

Watching the NHK feed

A 6.8 just hit south of Sendai again and a 6.1 hit Nagano two hours ago. It just isn't stopping.

I haven't been able to contact anybody that I know in Japan yet.

Completely terrifying Science Facts, courtesy of the NHK news feed: A cubic meter of water weighs one ton. (Sciencey people: is this really true? I had no idea.) Now imagine how many cubic meters of water were in the first 20-foot-high wave that hit Japan yesterday. And that wave reached speeds of up to 500 kilometers per hour when it was traveling over the open ocean.

This is not just the worst earthquake in recorded Japanese history, but the fifth-most powerful earthquake ever recorded anywhere in the world, period.

Four passenger trains and a cruise ship with over 100 people on it have been missing since yesterday.

Links again, because these cannot be signal-boosted enough: CharityNavigator and Google People Finder.