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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 11 56 980 26 1073
Tohoku 0 1 10 76 4136 90 4313
Kanto 1 9 18 136 2994 66 3224
Chubu 0 0 1 16 2657 9 2683
Kinki 0 0 1 5 1435 6 1447
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 8 1244 5 1257
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 11 84 8104 98 8299
Near Japan * 1 7 29 86 147 8 278
Total 2 19 81 467 21697 308 22574

*; 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: 211
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)