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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2005
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 16 42 816 86 960
Tohoku 0 0 9 37 1324 38 1408
Kanto 0 0 6 19 1107 11 1143
Chubu 0 0 1 15 1101 2 1119
Kinki 0 0 2 12 1292 30 1336
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 554 15 570
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 15 70 2077 122 2285
Near Japan * 2 8 51 350 493 38 942
Total 3 8 100 546 8764 342 9763

*; 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: 80
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)