Ok here’s the skinny:

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.1 hits Etorofu Island off Hokkaido of northern Japan. The earthquake struck at 8:15 p.m. Tokyo time at a depth of 30 kilometers near Russia’s Kuril Islands, the Japanese meteorological agency said.

The tsunami was likely to hit the eastern part of the Pacific coast of Hokkaido at 9:10 p.m. Japan time, the agency said on its Web site. The first wave was expected to be 1 meter high. A wave up to 2 meters (about 6ft or so) high could reach the Okhotsk Sea coast of Hokkaido by 9:20 p.m., the agency said. There were no immediate reports from those locations.

Yeah… exciting eh? Earth Quake in Japanese is JISHIN Tsunami in Japanese is, well, TSUNAMI.

~J out “I’m ok”

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