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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2007
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 8 32 57 876 69 1042
Tohoku 0 0 8 38 1048 23 1117
Kanto 0 0 6 29 967 19 1021
Chubu 0 1 10 72 5342 65 5490
Kinki 0 1 3 9 1579 24 1616
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 1 0 2 552 7 562
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 3 9 24 211 1699 174 2120
Near Japan * 0 15 33 51 55 8 162
Total 3 35 116 469 12118 389 13130

*; 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: 213
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)