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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2001
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 9 47 413 17 488
Tohoku 0 0 4 31 780 44 859
Kanto 0 1 6 24 1020 13 1064
Chubu 0 0 3 10 550 13 576
Kinki 0 0 3 7 2523 87 2620
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 4 1010 38 1053
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 16 71 1790 143 2020
Near Japan * 0 8 21 49 34 6 118
Total 0 11 63 243 8120 361 8798

*; 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: 87
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)