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In reply to the discussion: "Please, do NOT pray for Japan.." [View all]AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Anti-Japanese sentiments were really and truly disgusting. I remember we talked about them here on DU, but I won't further repeat what had been said. It was racism in its purest and ugliest form.
I am not going to ask anyone to donate today, however if someone really wants to post #27 has the information.
I think the videos are important, especially the one called "Surviving a Tsunami" from Nova. The West Coast sits on the ring of fire. There are faults off the Washington, Oregon and California coast line. California has seen major earthquakes in the past, including the one I remember in 1989. We were lucky it was only an Earthquake. Had there been a Tsunami.. imagine what that could have done to the Bay Area? San Francisco has 812,826 people listed as living here. Oakland and the remainder of the Bay Area more. A major series of ten meter waves (32 feet high) could wreak havoc on the city and the surrounding areas. Its not a matter of if.. but when.
I hope we will not see anything like that in my lifetime.