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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2001
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 4 14 56 749 124 947
Tohoku 0 2 10 37 1129 46 1224
Kanto 0 0 4 21 978 14 1017
Chubu 0 1 0 10 545 20 576
Kinki 0 0 0 4 2048 106 2158
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 7 925 44 976
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 6 68 1634 176 1886
Near Japan * 0 3 18 32 48 8 109
Total 0 12 52 235 8056 538 8893

*; 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: 82
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)