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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2009
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 11 52 887 77 1028
Tohoku 0 0 8 32 1578 12 1630
Kanto 0 0 3 19 945 16 983
Chubu 0 0 0 17 1233 1 1251
Kinki 0 0 0 18 1191 13 1222
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 458 5 467
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 9 75 2293 114 2491
Near Japan * 0 4 25 65 64 5 163
Total 0 5 56 282 8649 243 9235

*; 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: 106
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)