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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2003
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 5 25 86 337 1822 73 2348
Tohoku 0 0 3 42 2349 39 2433
Kanto 0 1 3 22 1111 18 1155
Chubu 0 0 1 14 863 9 887
Kinki 0 1 1 5 1222 49 1278
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 0 643 7 650
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 1 17 82 1878 193 2172
Near Japan * 1 5 22 53 49 28 158
Total 7 33 133 555 9937 416 11081

*; 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: 164
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)