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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2021
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 2 13 41 1009 36 1102
Tohoku 0 0 11 70 3708 75 3864
Kanto 0 0 4 23 2293 27 2347
Chubu 0 0 2 19 1877 10 1908
Kinki 0 1 0 4 1318 2 1325
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 900 8 911
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 7 61 2697 58 2826
Near Japan * 0 2 35 102 643 16 798
Total 1 8 72 323 14445 232 15081

*; 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: 134
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)