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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2009
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 10 47 911 44 1013
Tohoku 0 2 6 38 2146 10 2202
Kanto 0 0 7 28 1712 27 1774
Chubu 2 0 10 71 2924 8 3015
Kinki 0 0 1 5 1232 9 1247
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 684 3 688
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 3 8 25 156 3846 287 4325
Near Japan * 1 8 30 109 106 1 255
Total 6 19 89 455 13561 389 14519

*; 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: 163
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)