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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 7 46 901 21 976
Tohoku 0 0 11 76 1534 7 1628
Kanto 0 0 5 25 835 3 868
Chubu 0 0 0 19 1167 1 1187
Kinki 0 0 0 5 1110 32 1147
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 552 11 567
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 12 84 2666 197 2961
Near Japan * 0 1 32 91 102 23 249
Total 0 4 67 350 8867 295 9583

*; 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: 115
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)