Kinki-Chugoku-Shikoku Region

a) In southern Tokushima Prefecture, on February 8th there was a shallow M4.2 earthquake (maximum seismic intensity 4).
b) Aftershocks to the 2000 Western Tottori Prefecture Earthquake are declining. On February 11th, there was an M4.3 earthquake (maximum seismic intensity 4).
c) The seismic activity in northern Hyogo Prefecture is declining, but continues. There were M3.9 (maximum seismic intensity 3) events on February 1st and 16th.

Note: Within square brackets ([ ]) is the epicenter place name used by the Meteorological Agency in its information releases.

Note:
M=magnitude
N: total number of events in the figure
depth=depth of hypocenter
UND=Earthquakes of less than M1.0 and earthquakes whose magnitude was not recorded.
The key to the symbols shows on the left the size of an earthquake and on the right the depth of the hypocenter.