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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2009
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 11 51 769 98 931
Tohoku 0 2 10 32 1875 14 1933
Kanto 0 1 4 21 1631 39 1696
Chubu 0 0 2 14 1038 10 1064
Kinki 0 1 0 12 1418 20 1451
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 4 568 8 581
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 3 59 1424 128 1616
Near Japan * 0 2 29 59 53 4 147
Total 0 10 60 252 8776 321 9419

*; 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: 110
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)