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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 1 10 51 1175 33 1271
Tohoku 0 4 30 226 3879 15 4154
Kanto 0 2 8 99 3362 2 3473
Chubu 0 0 0 15 1382 2 1399
Kinki 0 0 0 5 1109 13 1127
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 585 4 591
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 11 66 2796 159 3035
Near Japan * 1 3 26 100 132 3 265
Total 2 13 85 564 14420 231 15315

*; 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: 254
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)