What to say?

Nothing in my life experiences can in anyway help me to understand the awful experiences people have been through in the last hours since the huge earthquake. Whatever one's religious following, surely now is the time to think of the poor people who survived and to help them in some way. If I thought that praying would be of some help - then I would; however, it reminds me of the interviewer on radio 4 who asked either the Archbshop of Canterbury, or the head of the Jewish church after 9-11. Where was God?