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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 17 49 752 19 838
Tohoku 1 2 8 90 4555 358 5014
Kanto 0 0 4 36 3312 93 3445
Chubu 0 0 1 16 2175 13 2205
Kinki 0 0 1 9 1460 4 1474
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 1206 1 1214
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 10 65 5766 143 5984
Near Japan * 2 10 21 116 193 54 396
Total 3 13 63 387 19419 685 20570

*; 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: 188
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)