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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2002
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 2 19 81 827 85 1015
Tohoku 0 1 4 31 1168 37 1241
Kanto 0 0 2 61 1409 10 1482
Chubu 0 0 2 14 837 36 889
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1956 81 2046
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 938 25 965
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 9 53 1973 147 2183
Near Japan * 2 3 25 58 54 8 150
Total 3 7 61 309 9162 429 9971

*; 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: 114
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)