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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2005
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 14 52 1183 48 1297
Tohoku 3 3 33 109 2466 39 2653
Kanto 0 1 7 27 1384 7 1426
Chubu 0 1 1 12 1543 3 1560
Kinki 0 0 0 8 1439 20 1467
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 0 771 7 778
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 15 75 2452 203 2745
Near Japan * 0 5 28 180 145 11 369
Total 3 10 98 463 11383 338 12295

*; 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: 129
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)