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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2002
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 15 49 863 127 1056
Tohoku 0 2 4 28 975 50 1059
Kanto 0 0 5 23 1120 30 1178
Chubu 0 0 1 15 579 12 607
Kinki 0 1 2 16 3017 285 3321
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 1323 88 1418
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 6 14 140 1960 197 2317
Near Japan * 0 0 17 40 48 8 113
Total 0 11 59 317 9885 797 11069

*; 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: 153
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)