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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 10 30 519 15 575
Tohoku 3 8 44 233 1720 9 2017
Kanto 0 0 7 45 1194 7 1253
Chubu 0 0 1 10 1198 9 1218
Kinki 0 0 0 11 996 32 1039
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 1 1 3 557 11 573
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 56 1910 141 2113
Near Japan * 2 1 27 83 76 13 202
Total 5 11 96 471 8170 237 8990

*; 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: 155
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)