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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 14 32 721 61 829
Tohoku 0 1 42 241 4507 37 4828
Kanto 1 6 17 126 3800 7 3957
Chubu 0 1 1 29 1681 5 1717
Kinki 0 0 0 10 1015 17 1042
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 550 11 563
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 13 68 2119 160 2362
Near Japan * 2 7 30 157 111 5 312
Total 3 18 117 665 14504 303 15610

*; 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: 311
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)