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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2000
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 17 55 552 13 637
Tohoku 0 3 5 38 628 13 687
Kanto 6 47 496 2357 6208 190 9304
Chubu 0 0 0 14 376 7 397
Kinki 0 0 1 5 881 21 908
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 4 2 339 2 347
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 12 64 1461 64 1602
Near Japan * 2 6 25 50 46 5 134
Total 8 57 560 2585 10491 315 14016

*; 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: 5690
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)