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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 12 51 962 40 1067
Tohoku 0 1 37 226 4106 7 4377
Kanto 0 1 7 92 3426 2 3528
Chubu 0 1 0 27 1811 2 1841
Kinki 0 0 0 5 1082 21 1108
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 622 2 626
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 8 67 2335 102 2513
Near Japan * 1 14 61 151 183 3 413
Total 1 20 125 621 14527 179 15473

*; 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: 259
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)