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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2018
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 13 37 839 25 917
Tohoku 0 2 9 77 3041 64 3193
Kanto 0 3 7 47 2376 14 2447
Chubu 0 1 2 14 2093 10 2120
Kinki 0 0 1 5 1614 1 1621
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 978 8 987
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 9 71 3413 56 3549
Near Japan * 0 4 25 57 86 8 180
Total 0 13 66 309 14440 186 15014

*; 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: 146
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)