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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2010
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 8 49 822 64 943
Tohoku 0 1 5 40 1926 39 2011
Kanto 0 0 4 23 1018 15 1060
Chubu 0 0 2 20 993 4 1019
Kinki 0 1 0 14 1098 13 1126
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 9 487 3 500
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 1 24 84 1967 151 2228
Near Japan * 0 3 37 68 126 13 247
Total 1 6 81 307 8437 302 9134

*; 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: 101
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)