11.   Now and then, worried relatives arrived to inquire after missing kin.

12.   The state-run radio broadcast messages urging survivors to report to their embassies as soon as they reach safety, and hotels posted notices from worried relatives.

13.   They announced a phone hot line for worried relatives of patients.

14.   Worried relatives had relayed news to Miami that the four players and the coach were missing and had fled the island days before they even left.

15.   Worried relatives scour news reports for mention of family.

16.   A hotline was set up at the foreign ministry to handle calls from worried relatives.

17.   The US State Department has been inundated with calls seeking information on the Japanese earthquake by worried relatives frustrated by overloaded telephone circuits.

18.   The authorities put in place an emergency telephone number for worried relatives to call.