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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 9 36 650 21 717
Tohoku 0 0 13 101 2168 7 2289
Kanto 1 0 7 41 1270 1 1320
Chubu 0 0 0 34 2146 7 2187
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1130 26 1162
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 631 6 644
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 11 92 3582 301 3988
Near Japan * 1 6 25 122 155 16 325
Total 2 9 66 438 11732 385 12632

*; 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: 187
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)