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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2018
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 2 53 186 4058 113 4413
Tohoku 0 2 6 59 2906 44 3017
Kanto 0 1 13 28 3548 21 3611
Chubu 0 0 1 18 1582 6 1607
Kinki 0 0 0 7 1736 1 1744
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 1141 1 1149
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 2 5 26 207 4436 88 4764
Near Japan * 0 4 20 76 114 12 226
Total 3 14 120 587 19521 286 20531

*; 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: 409
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)