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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 3 6 118 509 10240 361 11237
Tohoku 4 28 258 1667 52451 971 55379
Kanto 2 19 84 611 33341 440 34497
Chubu 0 0 13 189 22909 97 23208
Kinki 1 1 3 80 16532 119 16736
Chugoku, Shikoku 1 1 15 185 27894 267 28363
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 5 36 259 2228 109585 1685 113798
Near Japan * 12 63 373 1182 1881 347 3858
Total 28 154 1123 6651 274833 4287 287076

*; 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: 6583
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)