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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2021
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 9 58 885 23 976
Tohoku 1 1 19 158 7631 78 7888
Kanto 0 0 6 27 2412 34 2479
Chubu 0 0 1 18 2488 20 2527
Kinki 0 0 1 7 1479 6 1493
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 0 964 10 974
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 8 70 3023 94 3196
Near Japan * 0 4 33 97 915 15 1064
Total 2 6 77 435 19797 280 20597

*; 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: 167
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)