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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 48 532 13 600
Tohoku 0 2 16 111 1616 7 1752
Kanto 0 0 2 34 989 1 1026
Chubu 0 0 1 18 1284 4 1307
Kinki 0 0 3 6 1145 28 1182
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 6 1302 42 1352
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 12 62 2288 225 2587
Near Japan * 0 5 26 106 101 20 258
Total 0 7 69 391 9257 340 10064

*; 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: 169
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)