1.   First, Professor Bartoshuk and her associates asked people to rate the bitterness of PROP on an intensity scale.

2.   Other countries also have intensity scales, but they are based on the slow process of collecting descriptions of the tremor through surveys.

3.   The quake measured three Japanese intensity scale of one to seven in Yasato in Ibaraki.

4.   The tremor also measured four on the Japanese intensity scale of seven in Ajiro in Shizuoka prefecture.

5.   The temblor, registering five-plus on the Japanese intensity scale of up to seven, was most strongly felt in Akune and Sendai near the epicentre.

6.   The tremor measured five on the Japanese intensity scale of one to seven.

7.   The tremor measured three in Urakawa, sothern Hokkaido, on the Japanese intensity scale of seven.

8.   The tremor measured five on the Japanese intensity scale of seven in Ito city on the peninsula.

9.   The tremor registered four in Ito on the Japanese intensity scale of up to seven.

10.   It registered five on the Japanese intensity scale of seven in Kikaijima, one of the Amami islands in the East China Sea.