While I do understand the plight, they didn't stop the timer when Italy was hit by earthquakes last year that literally destroyed towns, or when the floods hit Europe in 2014. They stopped it for the Japanese because they're a Japanese publisher, and the dev team was personally affected by the earthquake there. They went out there to help as well. If they do stop the timers for NA, then it's not fair for EU players who also got hit by calamities but didn't get the same treatment.