"Scores of villagers on a remote Japanese island chain scrambled for higher ground after a major 7.4-magnitude offshore quake early today sparked a tsunami alert, AFP reported. The alert was later downgraded. Waves of 30cm hit the shores of the Ogasawara islands, an archipelago with a population of about 2,300 some 1000km south of Tokyo, near Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean."
New Zealand Herald
I've been following this from broadcast off the mainland. This comes on the hill of the lunar eclipse. The crazy thing is I was just reading about this in the book:
The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond by Alvin Conway
I am very concerned about the Japanese Islands where I was born. Here's a link to a website that monitors earthchanges news associated with the approaching 2012.
The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond | 2012 and Earthchanges News events