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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2006
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 13 46 756 64 880
Tohoku 0 0 6 40 1171 30 1247
Kanto 0 0 4 24 1490 22 1540
Chubu 0 1 1 13 1016 8 1039
Kinki 0 0 0 10 1152 22 1184
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 5 541 12 559
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 15 85 1678 252 2031
Near Japan * 3 41 41 58 82 5 230
Total 4 43 81 281 7886 415 8710

*; 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: 135
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)