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Table 2 Statistics of singles, mainshocks, aftershocks, and foreshocks using the nearest-neighbor distance analysis of long-term data

From: Characteristics of foreshock activity inferred from the JMA earthquake catalog

Magnitude range

Singles

Families

All

Mainshocks

Aftershocks

Foreshocks

All events: M ≥ 0

93,938

22%

17,700

4%

265,656

62%

52,332

12%

429,626

1 ≤ M < 2

87,014

24%

9990

3%

219,297

61%

41,847

12%

358,148

2 ≤ M < 3

6676

11%

5934

10%

39,884

65%

8960

15%

61,454

3 ≤ M < 4

245

3%

1480

17%

5674

65%

1315

15%

8714

4 ≤ M < 5

3

0%

248

22%

718

62%

184

16%

1153

5 ≤ M < 6

0

0%

35

27%

76

58%

20

15%

131

6 ≤ M < 7

0

0%

9

41%

7

32%

6

27%

22

7 ≤ M

0

0%

4

100%

0

0%

0

0%

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