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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2002
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 9 68 922 87 1087
Tohoku 0 2 5 28 1484 39 1558
Kanto 0 0 7 22 1614 16 1659
Chubu 0 0 1 7 854 24 886
Kinki 0 0 0 5 1664 47 1716
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 1023 24 1054
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 14 92 2298 208 2615
Near Japan * 2 3 23 108 93 16 245
Total 2 9 60 336 9952 461 10820

*; 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: 104
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)