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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

June 2009
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 1 14 49 1004 39 1108
Tohoku 0 3 16 49 2171 6 2245
Kanto 0 1 5 32 1438 23 1499
Chubu 0 0 0 18 1253 2 1273
Kinki 0 1 1 8 1297 8 1315
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 4 681 2 689
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 8 74 3775 116 3974
Near Japan * 0 8 32 93 150 5 288
Total 1 15 78 327 11769 201 12391

*; 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: 129
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)