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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 8 53 781 12 854
Tohoku 1 2 20 111 1922 3 2059
Kanto 0 0 5 42 1345 4 1396
Chubu 0 1 0 15 1262 0 1278
Kinki 0 0 2 11 1388 37 1438
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 7 555 6 570
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 3 13 159 4671 224 5071
Near Japan * 0 5 37 95 123 17 277
Total 2 11 87 493 12047 303 12943

*; 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: 161
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)