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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2018
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 22 40 800 29 892
Tohoku 1 0 10 92 3437 422 3962
Kanto 0 1 11 42 3526 106 3686
Chubu 0 0 2 14 1747 18 1781
Kinki 0 0 1 6 1408 5 1420
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 1053 8 1068
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 12 91 4430 132 4666
Near Japan * 0 6 21 93 71 32 223
Total 1 9 80 384 16472 752 17698

*; 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: 131
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)