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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2000
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 3 6 161 835 6531 322 7858
Tohoku 1 10 58 456 7222 207 7954
Kanto 8 78 875 4174 22625 489 28249
Chubu 1 0 22 168 5968 99 6258
Kinki 0 2 13 99 9950 174 10238
Chugoku, Shikoku 1 2 32 305 19191 355 19886
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 3 14 136 851 19545 1375 21924
Near Japan * 10 38 200 582 449 50 1329
Total 27 150 1497 7470 91481 3071 103696

*; 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:13041
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)