I feel for the people who are getting hurt by all this. I was reminded just a few moments ago about the people of Haiti and how some of them were being found in the rubble:
Rochester Institute of Technology's RITRC has over the years developed and fine tuned their space age high tech imaging systems.
http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=47281
Guess who paid for all this, by the by?
And if there was an earthquake in China? Will they be using the same equipment to find their lost? Absolutely!
I wouldn't put it past them to use it in "other ways" while they were doing this---helping to save lives.