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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2007
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 8 35 964 33 1042
Tohoku 0 0 6 34 1491 20 1551
Kanto 0 2 17 24 1573 16 1632
Chubu 0 0 3 29 2788 13 2833
Kinki 0 1 1 8 1461 23 1494
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 636 4 644
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 2 2 17 143 1858 127 2149
Near Japan * 1 11 57 167 146 11 393
Total 3 18 109 444 10917 247 11738

*; 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: 170
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)