Indians abroad surf Web for quake news

"Another day has passed...another day of worry", a woman wrote on the message board of an Indian website today.

"Another day has passed...another day of worry", a woman wrote on the message board of an Indian website today.

The woman, from Seoul, left messages on English-language rajkot.comseveral times a day at the weekend for friends from the quake-hit west Indian state of Gujarat.

With phone lines down and mobile networks jammed from high demand, people have taken to the Internet to locate missing friends and family.

Indians abroad and foreign nationals trying to locate loved ones travelling in India spent hours trading links to news websites and offering to phone each other's families.

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Ahmedabad.comlisted damaged buildings. The Gujarati-language newspaper Akila Dailyused its website akiladaily.comto solicit donations.

The earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, has killed as many as 15,000 people, toppling buildings and paralysing most communication with the outside world.

Reuters