Guest Aunty Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami alert for Japan following an 8.4 magnitude earthquake that struck east of the Kurile islands approx. 1 hour ago. Costal areas in Hokkaido are currently being evcuated. The earthquake was measured as far away as New Zealand by its network of seismic monitoring drums. http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/...apan/index.html http://www.geonet.org.nz/drums.html Quote