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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2006
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 11 54 936 105 1107
Tohoku 0 1 6 43 1186 33 1269
Kanto 0 2 5 22 1505 18 1552
Chubu 0 1 1 14 930 2 948
Kinki 0 0 2 10 1104 25 1141
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 464 4 470
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 14 68 2002 114 2199
Near Japan * 1 3 27 85 87 12 215
Total 1 9 66 298 8214 313 8901

*; 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: 109
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)