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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 10 125 514 8070 238 8958
Tohoku 4 33 221 1268 20139 70 21735
Kanto 0 6 64 525 16387 75 17057
Chubu 0 0 17 173 14658 40 14888
Kinki 0 0 7 88 12759 293 13147
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 1 12 46 8095 189 8343
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 4 13 149 1146 28870 2106 32288
Near Japan * 11 65 411 1105 1195 161 2948
Total 20 128 1006 4865 110173 3172 119364

*; 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: 1840
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)