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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 10 49 750 32 842
Tohoku 0 2 14 115 3916 412 4459
Kanto 0 0 5 37 4136 157 4335
Chubu 0 0 0 17 1979 19 2015
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1418 3 1430
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 1085 9 1099
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 12 76 4707 113 4908
Near Japan * 1 4 34 108 149 46 342
Total 1 7 76 415 18140 791 19430

*; 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: 143
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)