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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 7 111 502 9190 571 10382
Tohoku 9 66 603 3690 46409 324 51101
Kanto 3 26 144 1358 40504 91 42126
Chubu 0 4 16 226 17052 28 17326
Kinki 0 0 4 89 12467 130 12690
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 5 34 7245 71 7355
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 13 100 863 28700 1910 31586
Near Japan * 10 86 479 2302 2247 97 5221
Total 23 202 1462 9064 163814 3222 177787

*; 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: 3138
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)