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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2010
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 4 11 50 808 67 940
Tohoku 1 1 3 42 2073 38 2158
Kanto 0 0 5 20 1079 22 1126
Chubu 0 0 1 13 1037 5 1056
Kinki 0 0 0 14 1065 16 1095
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 483 6 493
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 22 210 2649 106 2990
Near Japan * 2 8 42 83 117 11 263
Total 3 16 85 435 9311 271 10121

*; 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: 104
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)