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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 47 752 100 906
Tohoku 0 7 44 345 5297 41 5734
Kanto 0 2 23 167 4187 6 4385
Chubu 0 1 7 38 2033 4 2083
Kinki 0 0 1 11 1132 19 1163
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 601 8 611
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 9 80 2234 265 2588
Near Japan * 1 6 43 191 113 9 363
Total 1 16 134 881 16349 452 17833

*; 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: 344
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)