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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2005
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 2 17 66 1330 146 1562
Tohoku 0 1 4 32 1099 47 1183
Kanto 0 7 17 138 1115 15 1292
Chubu 0 0 5 29 2011 16 2061
Kinki 0 0 2 17 1189 43 1251
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 6 606 8 622
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 7 70 1675 120 1873
Near Japan * 1 2 32 113 80 16 244
Total 2 13 86 471 9105 411 10088

*; 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: 136
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)