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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2001
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 14 51 397 21 486
Tohoku 0 2 3 46 640 21 712
Kanto 0 1 3 24 1071 12 1111
Chubu 0 1 3 14 566 19 603
Kinki 0 1 1 5 1335 30 1372
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 13 1829 58 1902
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 12 60 1712 150 1935
Near Japan * 1 0 14 31 28 3 77
Total 1 9 52 244 7578 314 8198

*; 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: 105
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)