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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 18 49 575 26 669
Tohoku 0 3 15 62 1650 11 1741
Kanto 0 0 5 30 957 4 996
Chubu 0 0 0 12 1014 4 1030
Kinki 0 0 1 13 1096 28 1138
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 593 30 629
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 5 48 307 2914 180 3455
Near Japan * 2 8 28 97 78 11 224
Total 3 17 115 576 8877 294 9882

*; 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: 164
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)