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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 8 30 596 19 654
Tohoku 0 2 19 85 1618 10 1734
Kanto 0 1 5 37 943 4 990
Chubu 0 0 4 15 1162 1 1182
Kinki 0 0 0 6 945 15 966
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 4 574 8 587
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 5 69 2444 205 2724
Near Japan * 1 6 58 100 145 21 331
Total 1 11 100 346 8427 283 9168

*; 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: 130
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)