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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 11 44 776 75 907
Tohoku 1 7 51 297 4052 55 4463
Kanto 1 5 14 203 4907 14 5144
Chubu 0 0 1 12 1351 2 1366
Kinki 0 0 1 9 1015 13 1038
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 551 7 563
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 9 86 2286 180 2562
Near Japan * 2 10 80 617 647 18 1374
Total 4 24 167 1273 15585 364 17417

*; 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: 343
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)