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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2006
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 12 50 758 72 892
Tohoku 1 3 6 45 1211 46 1312
Kanto 0 1 2 29 1298 16 1346
Chubu 0 0 3 15 1068 6 1092
Kinki 0 0 0 12 1241 32 1285
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 617 5 625
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 7 60 1703 108 1879
Near Japan * 5 15 49 57 73 9 208
Total 7 19 79 271 7969 294 8639

*; 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: 102
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)