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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 9 41 794 102 949
Tohoku 2 6 22 79 2551 35 2695
Kanto 1 3 8 55 1382 44 1493
Chubu 0 0 2 17 1288 27 1334
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1104 13 1126
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 569 5 578
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 56 1561 108 1731
Near Japan * 1 6 21 60 71 9 168
Total 4 18 69 320 9320 343 10074

*; 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: 130
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)