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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2005
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 16 79 1131 108 1337
Tohoku 0 0 7 44 1149 46 1246
Kanto 0 0 7 19 1136 11 1173
Chubu 0 0 4 25 1107 6 1142
Kinki 0 0 5 14 1198 35 1252
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 604 22 630
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 1 25 279 5180 298 5784
Near Japan * 1 3 24 151 101 15 295
Total 2 7 88 615 11606 541 12859

*; 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: 387
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)