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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2003
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 4 20 41 1010 57 1132
Tohoku 0 0 6 71 4095 39 4211
Kanto 0 0 3 16 1018 16 1053
Chubu 0 0 2 13 773 5 793
Kinki 0 0 1 5 1420 34 1460
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 6 689 7 704
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 8 87 2180 217 2493
Near Japan * 0 6 15 62 65 29 177
Total 0 11 57 301 11250 404 12023

*; 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: 216
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)