( CNN ) -- A communication breakdown has left people in anxious limbo around the globe with those outside Haiti not knowing whether loved ones there survived a major earthquake , and those in Haiti unable to get word out that they 're safe . With few phone calls going through in the Caribbean nation in the aftermath of Tuesday 's 7.0-magnitude quake , people were driven to texting , social networking sites and other online communication . Thousands of people reached out through CNN 's iReport Web page , posting pictures of missing loved ones and asking anyone with information to contact them . Pleas for help filled page after page on iReports , including : . • Johanna Neyra , who was trying to track down her cousin and his wife , Luis and Heidy Carazas . Luis Carazas works for the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince , in the Haitian capital . `` His family is very concerned in Peru , '' said Neyra , who waited for word of their fate , knowing the official Vatican newspaper had reported that Joseph Serge Miot , the Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince , had died in the earthquake . • Naeemah Carre of Garden City , New York , reported no success in trying to raise her brother and six other relatives via e-mail and Facebook . • New York City resident Marie Aline Sillice had not heard from her father , Frangel Victor Sillice , or her cousin Yvon Consean , who were to have been traveling outside the Haitian capital on Tuesday . • Chico and Kathleen Boyer waited in Brooklyn , New York , to hear from daughter Maureen , who moved to Haiti two weeks ago . A number of aunts and cousins also were missing . Maureen Boyer posted to her Twitter account late Tuesday afternoon , but had not been heard from since . `` When the earthquake hit , she may have been home already or on the road close to home , '' Kathleen Boyer said in her iReport . `` We ca n't get through to the consulate to report her as a missing U.S . citizen . '' • Renee Guercia of Muttontown , New York , waited for word about her 71-year-old father , Joseph , who was in Port-au-Prince on business when the quake hit . Joseph Guercia was meeting with an associate , John Scarborough , on the fifth floor of the Hotel Montana when the shaking began . `` They were having a conversation when the earthquake hit and the roof caved in , '' Renee Guercia said . `` John called out for my dad and there was no response . '' Scarborough -- knocked unconscious -- was later rescued from the rubble of the hotel and airlifted to Miami , Guercia said . The Red Cross , as part of its relief effort , has set up a Web page to assist people who have lost contact with someone in Haiti . More than 1,000 names were on the list early Thursday . Impact Your World : How you can help . In Port-au-Prince , residents reached out to CNN reporters , pressing bits of paper into their hands with personal information , in the hope that television could tell of their survival after phone lines had failed them . `` It just rings , but nobody answers and we have no communication right now in Haiti , '' Jean Desroches told CNN 's John Zarrella in the Little Haiti neighborhood in Miami , Florida . `` It 's worse not knowing . That is my problem right now . '' CNN 's Ed Payne contributed to this report .
Communication breakdown in Haiti leaves people around world anxious over fate of loved ones . Few phone calls going through in Haiti in the aftermath of Tuesday 's 7.0-magnitude quake . People were driven to texting , social networking sites and other online communication . Thousands reached out through CNN 's iReport Web page , asking for information .