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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2000
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 14 61 624 34 735
Tohoku 0 0 2 30 730 27 789
Kanto 1 18 198 830 3855 67 4969
Chubu 0 0 0 17 549 9 575
Kinki 0 0 1 8 876 13 898
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 322 4 328
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 13 73 1223 71 1382
Near Japan * 3 2 18 56 30 4 113
Total 4 24 246 1077 8209 229 9789

*; Sakhalin, Kurile Is., Korea, Ogasawara Is., Primorskii, Taiwan
Total number of earthquakes felt with a seismic intensity of 1 or greater on the JMA scale: 2526
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)