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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 6 43 779 21 851
Tohoku 0 1 9 90 4263 191 4554
Kanto 0 0 4 23 3927 160 4114
Chubu 0 0 0 16 1986 11 2013
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1399 8 1416
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 1526 6 1537
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 13 75 5020 83 5192
Near Japan * 0 7 32 88 165 13 305
Total 0 11 64 349 19065 493 19982

*; 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: 184
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)