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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2001
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 17 47 681 122 868
Tohoku 1 0 7 38 1180 42 1268
Kanto 0 0 7 23 1234 26 1290
Chubu 0 0 2 14 710 34 760
Kinki 0 0 2 11 1820 106 1939
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 953 41 1000
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 2 5 52 294 2750 499 3602
Near Japan * 1 3 16 45 39 14 118
Total 4 9 103 478 9367 884 10845

*; 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: 168
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)