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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2000
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 20 161 1298 43 1523
Tohoku 0 1 2 28 597 19 647
Kanto 0 0 3 23 906 5 937
Chubu 0 0 4 11 432 8 455
Kinki 0 0 1 10 733 8 752
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 251 0 256
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 11 59 1834 108 2012
Near Japan * 1 2 19 44 20 5 91
Total 1 4 60 341 6071 196 6673

*; 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: 871
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)