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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 7 50 816 61 937
Tohoku 0 2 8 32 1492 18 1552
Kanto 3 9 37 138 2159 70 2416
Chubu 0 0 2 21 1451 12 1486
Kinki 0 1 0 6 1157 26 1190
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 3 654 4 663
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 5 13 74 1948 68 2108
Near Japan * 0 8 35 59 97 6 205
Total 3 28 104 383 9774 265 10557

*; 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: 150
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)