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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2018
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 6 38 810 9 864
Tohoku 0 2 11 70 3637 72 3792
Kanto 0 1 3 29 3213 28 3274
Chubu 0 2 1 17 2606 5 2631
Kinki 0 0 0 10 1491 3 1504
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 1772 2 1780
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 15 89 4969 184 5257
Near Japan * 0 5 21 81 116 16 239
Total 0 11 57 340 18614 319 19341

*; 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: 161
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)