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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2003
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 15 47 953 59 1075
Tohoku 1 1 30 191 5976 188 6387
Kanto 0 2 7 30 1214 4 1257
Chubu 0 0 1 17 1166 12 1196
Kinki 0 0 1 11 1151 46 1209
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 5 981 26 1013
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 5 57 1944 176 2182
Near Japan * 0 0 21 64 71 27 183
Total 1 4 81 422 13456 538 14502

*; 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: 257
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)