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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 9 40 669 15 733
Tohoku 0 2 13 107 1420 2 1544
Kanto 0 0 4 34 1127 6 1171
Chubu 0 0 0 17 1118 3 1138
Kinki 0 0 0 6 949 20 975
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 3 2 548 7 560
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 3 3 10 82 2223 141 2462
Near Japan * 0 8 33 95 131 10 277
Total 3 13 72 383 8185 204 8860

*; 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: 133
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)