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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2002
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 6 52 771 118 948
Tohoku 0 0 8 31 1034 60 1133
Kanto 0 0 9 19 1254 14 1296
Chubu 0 0 4 18 695 32 749
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1916 146 2071
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 3 8 1069 47 1127
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 3 18 84 1886 172 2164
Near Japan * 1 10 31 56 53 7 158
Total 2 14 79 277 8678 596 9646

*; 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: 109
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)