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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 13 59 808 67 949
Tohoku 0 2 4 33 1118 17 1174
Kanto 0 1 5 19 1148 19 1192
Chubu 0 0 3 19 1440 20 1482
Kinki 0 0 2 9 1176 19 1206
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 586 9 598
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 14 71 1516 115 1719
Near Japan * 1 10 36 76 90 6 219
Total 1 18 77 289 7882 272 8539

*; 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: 102
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)