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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

June 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 7 40 979 60 1088
Tohoku 1 3 65 332 5407 23 5831
Kanto 0 0 4 27 1368 23 1422
Chubu 0 0 2 13 1657 11 1683
Kinki 0 0 1 16 1209 19 1245
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 656 5 664
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 66 1664 70 1806
Near Japan * 1 3 39 72 82 5 202
Total 2 8 124 569 13022 216 13941

*; 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: 570
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)