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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2005
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 11 57 999 63 1133
Tohoku 0 1 5 35 1214 22 1277
Kanto 0 1 10 29 1547 13 1600
Chubu 0 1 1 13 1276 5 1296
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1273 18 1300
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 2 723 7 734
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 7 72 3109 165 3355
Near Japan * 0 4 27 71 63 18 183
Total 0 12 64 287 10204 311 10878

*; 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: 134
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)