Emergency iPhone apps

A list of potentially useful iPhone / smartphone apps for emergency situations:

Earthquake

Yurekuru Call

This is a push notification app. which gives you notice of earthquake warnings with an estimated seismic intensity (the Japanese seven-stage seismic scale) and arrival time of the tremor to the specific location where you registered.

iQuakes Earthquake Tracker for iPhone

Find the details on the latest earthquakes around the world on your iPhone or iPod touch along with the earthquake date, time, location, magnitude, depth, location maps and more from the USGS.

First Aid

iFirstAid

Pocket First Aid CPR from the American Heart Association

WebMD

Emergency Aid

Pet First Aid

Medical Contacts

mPassport Tokyo

mPassport is a mobile, medical concierge that helps visitors to get quality medical care when and where they need it.

Survival

SAS Survival Guide

Superb guide by John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman. Essential survival information for various situations/climates.

wikiHow: How to and DIY Survival Kit

Survival Pocket Reference

US Army Survival Guide

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When No Insulin Available, Extreme Low Carbohydrate Intake Can Save a Diabetic’s Life

Rice intake and type 2 diabetes in Japanese men and women: the Japan Public Health Center–Based Prospective Study1,2,3

To any diabetics here, when in an emergency situation and access to insulin is limited or unavailable, reducing to very small amounts (around 50 g per day) the intake of carbohydrates (bread, rice, sugar, starches) will keep you alive until you can secure insulin again. Before artificial insulin was invented, the low-carbohydrate treatment was the only way that insulin-dependent diabetics had a chance to survive at all.

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