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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2002
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 7 48 927 104 1088
Tohoku 0 1 7 34 1361 36 1439
Kanto 0 0 5 23 1080 10 1118
Chubu 0 0 1 15 768 8 792
Kinki 0 0 1 3 1557 67 1628
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 933 20 958
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 7 16 111 1737 209 2080
Near Japan * 1 6 16 70 71 2 166
Total 1 16 53 309 8434 456 9269

*; 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: 103
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)