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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2002
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 15 49 695 131 893
Tohoku 1 0 7 28 1260 59 1355
Kanto 0 0 1 24 913 7 945
Chubu 0 0 3 25 900 15 943
Kinki 0 0 0 13 1437 57 1507
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 988 47 1039
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 9 90 1977 150 2229
Near Japan * 1 6 26 66 41 13 153
Total 2 12 61 299 8211 479 9064

*; 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: 83
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)