Gaia Online has also entered the ring with its own fund-raising efforts for victims of the disasters in Japan.
Gaia Online is a community of over 8 million young adults active in social gaming, discussion boards and anime culture. Gaians feels a strong affinity with Japan, having always celebrated the Japanese style of comic book known as manga as well as Asian and comic cultural events such as Comic Con and Fanime. Gaia also runs its own manga cartoon and recently debuted a popular social game called Monster Galaxy.
Gaia Online will be selling the Emblem, Coat and Halo of Kannon (at one dollar, five dollars and ten dollars respectively). Proceeds on these items up to ten thousand dollars will go to the Red Cross to provide aid and comfort to those affected by recent tragedies.
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Man, the Japanese disaster is so alarming. I watched YouTube videos of that tsunami… a wall of water traveling who knows how fast… just total destruction.
My question: I heard that as of today there are at least 2000 dead. I know my understanding in this is limited… but how does that happen? To my knowledge they had many hours of advance warning yes? Why didn’t they evacuate?
They knew it was coming. Do people not heed warnings?
(I will humbly accept any information explaining this… I just don’t understand how thousands of people can perish in a natural disaster when they had significant advanced warning. RUN means just what it says. I am not unsympathetic. I am probably ignorant of several areas. But… there were warnings. Did people not pay attention?)
My understanding is that the total warning was between 8 and 11 minutes, depending on where along the coast you were. First there was the quake, then seismological data had to be evaluated to determine where the epicentre was. My understanding is that it takes about 15 minutes to compute the danger areas, and have the warning issued.
About 10 minutes after the warning, the tsunami hit the coast.
Thanks Tateru. I was misinformed then. I had heard they had several hours advanced warning. Thanks for setting that straight.
Wow, can you imagine– even if one survived that– having your entire life disappear in just a moment? Not the first or last time that will happen– but on such an immensely large scale. I have heard the police expect there to be in excess of 10,000 dead. To be honest… with only 10 minutes advanced warning… it’s amazing millions didn’t perish.
Indeed. I think 10,000 might actually be conservative. One small town with a population of about 17,000 was all but erased. Only two or three buildings in the whole town remain (one is a four-story building that has had a car washed onto the roof). Everything else is… well, gone. Roughly 7,000 people made it to high ground, and 10,000 people from that town alone are ‘missing’.