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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2003
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 12 54 723 180 970
Tohoku 0 2 9 29 1192 55 1287
Kanto 0 1 4 25 1103 3 1136
Chubu 0 0 0 25 805 22 852
Kinki 0 1 3 10 1594 74 1682
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 924 64 994
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 8 69 1824 142 2044
Near Japan * 0 2 24 51 51 10 138
Total 0 8 60 269 8216 550 9103

*; 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: 110
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)