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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2001
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 10 68 363 36 477
Tohoku 0 2 6 35 627 15 685
Kanto 0 0 3 31 863 13 910
Chubu 0 1 1 13 407 11 433
Kinki 0 0 3 13 2379 73 2468
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 4 1970 98 2074
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 4 15 84 1861 173 2138
Near Japan * 1 3 30 40 26 7 107
Total 2 10 70 288 8496 426 9292

*; 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: 122
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)