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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2007
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 17 58 767 61 905
Tohoku 0 0 7 35 1196 28 1266
Kanto 0 0 6 32 1360 38 1436
Chubu 0 0 1 26 1836 20 1883
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1136 24 1169
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 8 588 8 604
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 15 57 1696 99 1868
Near Japan * 2 6 36 76 52 7 179
Total 2 9 83 300 8631 285 9310

*; 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: 144
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)