The Great Central U.S. Shake Out will take place April 19th to help Hoosiers know what to do in the event of an earthquake.
As university communications personnel worked to contact Japanese students, volunteer professor Takako Kojima attempted to contact her family in Tokyo.
Officials say there have been no damage reports after an earthquake this morning south of Kokomo.
A graduate student at IU is using Facebook and Twitter to contact friends in his troubled homeland of Haiti.