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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 40 985 22 1054
Tohoku 0 0 16 78 4557 57 4708
Kanto 0 5 16 99 4134 44 4298
Chubu 0 0 2 10 2395 6 2413
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1600 1 1607
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 1 899 2 903
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 11 104 8962 103 9181
Near Japan * 1 6 35 111 173 11 337
Total 1 12 88 449 23705 246 24501

*; 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: 284
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)