The tools include Google Person Finder, an app that allows you to find details on people you know and leave details about yourself, and a relief map that provides updates on shelters and other information from the disaster zone.
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Published November 11, 2013
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Google announced today it has launched crisis tools to help gather and relay information to do with the devastation wrought by a powerful typhoon in the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan (also known as Yolanda) left a trail of destruction over the weekend, with officials fearing that up to 10,000 people may have died.
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