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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 12 38 543 40 633
Tohoku 0 5 28 201 2534 25 2793
Kanto 0 1 11 79 1773 9 1873
Chubu 0 0 0 19 1173 3 1195
Kinki 0 0 0 5 835 14 854
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 556 8 565
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 86 2437 162 2691
Near Japan * 0 6 31 133 83 7 260
Total 0 12 88 562 9934 268 10864

*; 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: 185
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)