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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 12 54 759 16 843
Tohoku 0 4 15 92 1714 4 1829
Kanto 0 1 4 40 1107 3 1155
Chubu 0 0 0 21 1463 3 1487
Kinki 0 0 1 6 1009 15 1031
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 3 755 10 770
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 7 80 3080 230 3399
Near Japan * 1 6 25 85 100 14 231
Total 1 15 66 381 9987 295 10745

*; 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: 165
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)