[Roccus]

According to IRIS, a 6.2 hit just off Honshu Japan just 2 minutes later.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30.html

[CindyDawg]

I thought the Japan one hit first.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That is a 7.1 according to the BBC...i posted a thread :

Earthquake hits off Japan coast ~ 7.1 off the west coast of Japan's largest island, Honshu.