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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2018
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 36 69 808 10 925
Tohoku 0 3 12 79 3654 74 3822
Kanto 0 0 7 30 2999 27 3063
Chubu 0 0 1 13 2079 7 2100
Kinki 0 0 1 13 2126 1 2141
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 1257 6 1266
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 8 66 4077 80 4231
Near Japan * 2 6 31 92 125 16 272
Total 2 11 96 365 17125 221 17820

*; 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.)