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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 11 35 725 13 784
Tohoku 2 7 13 102 4217 105 4446
Kanto 0 1 6 32 2877 42 2958
Chubu 0 0 1 21 2264 6 2292
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1561 3 1570
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 7 1095 14 1117
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 9 100 10467 122 10699
Near Japan * 2 3 18 97 144 14 278
Total 4 12 59 400 23350 319 24144

*; 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: 238
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)