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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 9 43 554 30 637
Tohoku 2 13 141 756 2537 22 3471
Kanto 0 1 13 62 1497 12 1585
Chubu 0 1 1 19 1100 3 1124
Kinki 0 0 0 10 909 9 928
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 7 538 7 553
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 56 1801 113 1976
Near Japan * 0 6 47 188 113 7 361
Total 2 22 218 1141 9049 203 10635

*; 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: 207
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)