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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 18 51 910 52 1033
Tohoku 0 1 9 31 1257 18 1316
Kanto 0 1 9 30 1112 29 1181
Chubu 0 0 3 29 1609 32 1673
Kinki 0 0 1 5 1089 17 1112
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 5 539 3 548
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 10 52 1616 119 1799
Near Japan * 2 13 32 64 69 9 189
Total 2 19 83 267 8201 279 8851

*; 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: 96
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)