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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 9 44 614 24 692
Tohoku 0 2 22 117 1671 4 1816
Kanto 0 1 6 57 1335 7 1406
Chubu 0 0 6 18 1360 5 1389
Kinki 0 0 0 4 1013 29 1046
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 588 10 604
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 10 93 2573 193 2869
Near Japan * 0 2 23 74 116 24 239
Total 0 6 76 413 9270 296 10061

*; 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: 142
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)