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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 6 34 819 30 889
Tohoku 0 1 27 191 3658 18 3895
Kanto 0 1 7 86 3339 7 3440
Chubu 0 0 0 8 1391 0 1399
Kinki 0 0 1 9 1043 4 1057
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 1 664 6 672
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 4 58 2532 146 2742
Near Japan * 0 9 34 100 146 11 300
Total 0 13 80 487 13592 222 14394

*; 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: 185
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)