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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 16 43 875 31 967
Tohoku 0 1 8 67 2812 15 2903
Kanto 0 1 7 20 1221 31 1280
Chubu 0 0 1 17 1536 5 1559
Kinki 0 0 3 11 1374 11 1399
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 680 7 689
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 5 11 81 1894 104 2095
Near Japan * 0 3 41 73 91 4 212
Total 0 12 87 314 10483 208 11104

*; 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: 136
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)