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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2001
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 6 41 81 469 21 619
Tohoku 0 1 8 35 820 37 901
Kanto 0 1 5 25 1144 25 1200
Chubu 0 0 2 13 705 12 732
Kinki 0 0 1 9 1516 51 1577
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 14 1672 36 1722
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 7 78 2267 137 2490
Near Japan * 0 1 17 46 42 3 109
Total 1 10 81 301 8635 322 9350

*; 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: 124
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)