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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 11 43 628 24 708
Tohoku 0 0 13 106 1868 5 1992
Kanto 0 2 5 40 1467 2 1516
Chubu 0 0 2 16 1364 3 1385
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1121 33 1163
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 572 15 591
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 13 83 2112 175 2383
Near Japan * 0 7 42 90 74 12 225
Total 0 11 86 391 9206 269 9963

*; 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: 149
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)