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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2000
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 12 56 361 30 459
Tohoku 1 0 5 43 632 18 699
Kanto 0 1 13 35 1403 27 1479
Chubu 0 0 7 11 527 5 550
Kinki 0 1 1 13 803 4 822
Chugoku, Shikoku 1 2 21 215 8199 58 8496
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 17 100 1838 105 2063
Near Japan * 1 4 15 54 32 7 113
Total 3 11 91 527 13795 254 14681

*; 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: 1105
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)