BE OKAY, JAPAN.

[whynot]

Japan earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter, TSUNAMI, approx 300 dead. It has hit North America. Watch it live on BBC.

- The American Red Cross is taking donations.
- If you are in the US, texting 90999 to REDCROSS donates $10.
- Person Finder: Japan Earthquake 2011. If you are looking for or have information about people in Japan affected by the earthquake, try here. It's currently tracking 7200 records.
- help_japan. ETA: help_japan, not a DW mirror.

What is the deal with the increased frequency of geological disaster in recent years? What causes that? I'm looking at this list of killer quakes in the past century, and while I am irritated that last October's Indonesia double whammy has been left out, the list still shows a worrying trend. Why is our planet going tectonically insane? What the hell is going on?

Hang in there, Japan.

Comments

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

I was talking about this just now with a couple friends and we were kind of joking about how it's looking more and more like 2012 will be the end of the world, except that we weren't joking at all, because shit like this keeps happening over and over and I see it just marching up and around the Pacific rim until idk, we're all gone.

/morbid

Thank you for the BBC link! I've been annoyed at my computer's inability to livestream al-J, and this is quite helpful.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

ahahaha my dad was not above making 2012 comments either. But I reckon it's like what these ladies said in the comments below us, that it's a combination of increased population density in more places and also that we have access to more information about them. The disasters have always been happening, but now we are actually aware of them.