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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2009
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 12 51 916 49 1028
Tohoku 0 1 5 42 2307 14 2369
Kanto 0 0 0 20 1317 31 1368
Chubu 0 0 2 13 1375 5 1395
Kinki 0 0 0 7 1409 14 1430
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 651 8 661
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 79 1937 78 2100
Near Japan * 0 5 27 61 131 11 235
Total 0 6 52 275 10043 210 10586

*; 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: 111
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)