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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2006
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 9 56 953 42 1060
Tohoku 0 2 5 33 1452 18 1510
Kanto 0 0 4 22 1345 21 1392
Chubu 0 0 1 15 1115 5 1136
Kinki 0 0 0 7 1105 15 1127
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 583 8 595
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 7 58 1508 71 1645
Near Japan * 0 2 14 47 90 5 158
Total 1 4 41 241 8151 185 8623

*; 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: 121
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)