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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 8 46 761 51 866
Tohoku 1 6 63 357 4483 32 4942
Kanto 0 4 12 132 4008 7 4163
Chubu 0 0 0 15 1121 2 1138
Kinki 0 0 1 5 1074 8 1088
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 5 604 5 615
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 9 68 2289 146 2512
Near Japan * 0 4 37 191 259 19 510
Total 1 14 131 819 14599 270 15834

*; 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: 281
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)