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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2018
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 16 55 740 27 839
Tohoku 0 1 4 65 3374 388 3832
Kanto 0 2 2 27 2675 71 2777
Chubu 0 0 2 16 1696 9 1723
Kinki 0 0 0 13 1463 3 1479
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 989 6 997
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 12 86 6937 270 7306
Near Japan * 0 6 28 86 98 35 253
Total 0 11 64 350 17972 809 19206

*; 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: 169
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)