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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 13 37 738 88 877
Tohoku 0 0 10 33 1170 30 1243
Kanto 0 0 1 26 1219 18 1264
Chubu 0 0 5 31 1988 65 2089
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1123 27 1159
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 574 7 585
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 63 1468 92 1629
Near Japan * 0 2 34 57 63 2 158
Total 0 3 69 260 8343 329 9004

*; 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: 97
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)