Intense quake off Japan recorded HONG KONG (AFP) Feb 09, 2005 An intense earthquake near some Japanese islands more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) southeast of Tokyo was recorded early Thursday, the Hong Kong Observatory said.
The quake estimated to be 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred at 1852 GMT Wednesday with its epicentre in the vicinity of Japan's Bonin Islands 1,140 kilometres south-southeast of Tokyo, it said.