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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 11 46 744 37 838
Tohoku 0 0 16 78 1716 2 1812
Kanto 0 0 4 43 913 4 964
Chubu 0 0 0 9 994 2 1005
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1195 38 1242
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 2 660 18 682
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 9 119 2825 172 3125
Near Japan * 1 4 29 90 68 7 199
Total 1 4 72 395 9115 280 9867

*; 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: 178
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)