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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 11 29 878 82 1001
Tohoku 0 0 3 34 1815 39 1891
Kanto 0 1 4 27 1212 22 1266
Chubu 0 0 2 26 1008 17 1053
Kinki 0 0 0 11 1277 25 1313
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 2 531 5 539
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 94 1913 162 2175
Near Japan * 2 10 164 190 62 36 464
Total 2 12 191 413 8696 388 9702

*; 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: 77
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)