SINGAPORE "Another day has passed...another day of worry," a woman wrote on the message board of an Indian Website on Sunday. "No contact, all phone lines are busy."

The woman, from Seoul, left messages on English-language rajkot.com several 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 traveling in India spent hours trading links to news Websites and offering to phone each other's families.

Ahmedabad.com listed damaged buildings. The Gujarati-language newspaper ***Akila Daily*** used its Website akiladaily.com to solicit donations.

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

"Does anyone have any news about Ahmedabad?" read an Internet message. Minutes later, a reply came back.

"Hospital has standing room only," wrote a man with access to a ham radio. "Multi-story (building) near Beediwala Park damaged and about 10 feared dead."

Thanks came firing in from several of the message board's dozens of users.

"I haven't heard any news about Bombay, (and) I am really hoping that means there is nothing to report," said one message. "All my family lives there. If anyone hears anything, please let me know."

Five minutes later, one Indian abroad, who had been able to contact Bombay by telephone, replied.

"They felt some strong tremors but that's it," he said. "No damage to lives or property."

(Reuter)