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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2004
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 3 6 30 95 1378 122 1634
Tohoku 0 1 8 27 1254 36 1326
Kanto 0 0 5 27 917 7 956
Chubu 0 9 14 94 4570 7 4694
Kinki 0 0 3 25 1170 34 1232
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 641 11 656
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 1 16 85 1494 143 1740
Near Japan * 1 5 20 49 71 7 153
Total 5 22 97 405 11495 367 12391

*; 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: 363
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)