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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 4 45 790 23 862
Tohoku 1 2 11 100 1701 6 1821
Kanto 0 1 7 45 3282 30 3365
Chubu 0 0 0 10 1206 3 1219
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1191 23 1220
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 655 8 664
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 12 75 2529 164 2781
Near Japan * 3 9 40 87 102 13 254
Total 4 13 74 369 11456 270 12186

*; 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: 160
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)