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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2001
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 0 13 58 331 17 420
Tohoku 0 1 5 42 575 16 639
Kanto 0 1 8 34 953 12 1008
Chubu 0 0 1 16 416 8 441
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1464 39 1509
Chugoku, Shikoku 1 1 7 24 2054 85 2172
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 21 77 1724 124 1947
Near Japan * 0 3 14 35 41 5 98
Total 2 7 69 292 7558 306 8234

*; 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: 141
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)