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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2003
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 3 14 75 223 2691 188 3194
Tohoku 1 2 26 77 2213 36 2355
Kanto 0 1 5 38 1326 14 1384
Chubu 0 0 2 17 1268 2 1289
Kinki 0 0 4 9 1209 36 1258
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 583 6 593
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 9 68 1862 178 2117
Near Japan * 0 0 26 79 62 25 192
Total 4 17 147 515 11214 485 12382

*; 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: 172
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)