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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2007
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 4 20 59 901 91 1075
Tohoku 0 0 5 37 1120 28 1190
Kanto 0 0 4 18 1028 17 1067
Chubu 1 3 30 239 3298 12 3583
Kinki 0 0 0 12 1289 32 1333
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 476 9 487
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 7 73 1203 96 1380
Near Japan * 2 7 44 62 58 6 179
Total 3 15 110 502 9373 291 10294

*; 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: 432
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)