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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 8 35 714 25 782
Tohoku 0 2 11 72 3737 75 3897
Kanto 0 0 5 43 2913 38 2999
Chubu 0 0 2 14 1820 6 1842
Kinki 1 0 0 11 1566 9 1587
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 2 728 2 733
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 3 16 104 958 24956 223 26260
Near Japan * 0 3 30 117 134 22 306
Total 4 21 161 1252 36568 400 38406

*; 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: 3146
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)