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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 36 803 44 890
Tohoku 0 3 20 129 5685 196 6033
Kanto 0 1 3 50 8730 181 8965
Chubu 0 0 1 16 1609 16 1642
Kinki 0 1 0 10 1517 11 1539
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 2028 22 2052
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 7 87 5555 102 5751
Near Japan * 0 5 27 85 87 11 215
Total 0 10 65 415 26014 583 27087

*; 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: 152
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)