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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2010
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 9 33 990 35 1067
Tohoku 1 0 19 77 3471 46 3614
Kanto 0 0 6 21 1420 9 1456
Chubu 0 2 2 11 1332 6 1353
Kinki 0 0 0 10 1313 6 1329
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 642 6 655
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 12 78 2379 129 2599
Near Japan * 0 7 38 103 129 14 291
Total 1 10 87 339 11676 251 12364

*; 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: 98
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)