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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2003
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 20 58 959 122 1160
Tohoku 0 1 6 36 1022 41 1106
Kanto 0 1 0 22 1042 8 1073
Chubu 0 0 1 16 747 11 775
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1294 42 1345
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 9 877 13 901
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 5 60 1763 235 2064
Near Japan * 0 4 24 66 60 18 172
Total 0 8 59 275 7764 490 8596

*; 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: 92
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)