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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 4 10 45 545 26 630
Tohoku 1 1 17 101 1814 14 1948
Kanto 0 0 8 39 1168 3 1218
Chubu 0 0 3 17 1984 4 2008
Kinki 0 0 2 3 1063 43 1111
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 554 22 581
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 8 81 2229 219 2538
Near Japan * 0 5 31 86 60 9 191
Total 2 10 79 377 9417 340 10225

*; 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: 166
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)