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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2005
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 20 53 957 75 1106
Tohoku 0 3 8 49 1664 47 1771
Kanto 1 1 2 26 1404 30 1464
Chubu 0 0 2 20 1212 4 1238
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1180 21 1210
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 591 14 606
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 12 88 2909 178 3188
Near Japan * 2 4 28 84 74 11 203
Total 4 9 72 330 9991 380 10786

*; 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: 91
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)