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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 4 32 1149 19 1204
Tohoku 0 0 12 80 4510 268 4870
Kanto 0 2 6 53 5528 118 5707
Chubu 0 0 0 16 2881 10 2907
Kinki 0 0 0 5 1468 2 1475
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 1426 4 1435
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 4 11 92 8872 168 9147
Near Japan * 0 2 21 88 160 25 296
Total 0 8 54 371 25994 614 27041

*; 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: 210
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)