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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 2 1 11 44 889 37 984
Tohoku 0 0 15 90 1584 3 1692
Kanto 0 0 4 35 890 0 929
Chubu 0 0 0 18 1170 2 1190
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1095 26 1130
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 492 13 509
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 11 84 2805 228 3129
Near Japan * 1 6 30 112 342 138 629
Total 3 8 72 395 9267 447 10192

*; 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: 166
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)