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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2021
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 12 37 699 16 766
Tohoku 0 2 9 51 3652 82 3796
Kanto 0 2 10 58 2790 102 2962
Chubu 0 0 3 28 3215 59 3305
Kinki 0 1 0 11 1494 9 1515
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 763 10 775
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 2 3 27 195 4423 350 5000
Near Japan * 0 2 77 222 438 38 777
Total 2 12 138 604 17474 666 18896

*; 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: 474
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)