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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 17 49 713 100 880
Tohoku 0 1 45 356 5805 38 6245
Kanto 0 2 20 135 4211 11 4379
Chubu 0 1 4 18 1730 5 1758
Kinki 0 0 0 10 1112 10 1132
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 2 708 13 724
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 12 80 2786 293 3172
Near Japan * 0 8 36 191 104 8 347
Total 0 14 135 841 17169 478 18637

*; 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: 357
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)