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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2001
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 14 55 302 20 392
Tohoku 0 0 1 31 495 8 535
Kanto 0 0 2 24 856 10 892
Chubu 0 1 2 18 444 12 477
Kinki 0 1 14 64 3922 89 4090
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 3 11 2177 145 2336
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 9 67 1592 156 1824
Near Japan * 1 2 14 38 23 3 81
Total 1 5 59 308 9811 443 10627

*; 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: 283
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)