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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 25 154 573 10298 785 11836
Tohoku 6 20 190 890 29170 254 30530
Kanto 4 18 98 440 15754 327 16641
Chubu 0 1 25 231 18144 230 18631
Kinki 0 1 10 111 14012 204 14338
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 3 41 7133 65 7242
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 17 111 754 19914 1170 21967
Near Japan * 9 72 379 831 904 71 2266
Total 21 154 970 3871 115329 3106 123451

*; 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: 1901
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)