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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 9 43 707 29 788
Tohoku 1 4 38 169 1934 14 2160
Kanto 1 5 15 102 2008 11 2142
Chubu 0 0 1 17 1211 11 1240
Kinki 1 0 0 20 1676 28 1725
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 606 9 617
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 14 19 192 3216 148 3590
Near Japan * 4 3 39 104 94 9 253
Total 8 26 121 649 11452 259 12515

*; 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: 272
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)