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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2000
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 1 14 57 357 35 465
Tohoku 0 1 4 40 507 17 569
Kanto 0 1 4 21 995 12 1033
Chubu 0 0 0 14 499 6 519
Kinki 0 0 1 7 834 15 857
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 31 4677 83 4792
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 18 68 1833 364 2284
Near Japan * 0 3 10 32 18 1 64
Total 2 6 52 270 9720 533 10583

*; 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: 209
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)