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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2019
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 16 47 839 20 924
Tohoku 0 0 10 61 3362 41 3474
Kanto 0 1 4 14 2725 20 2764
Chubu 0 0 1 16 1885 3 1905
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1595 4 1608
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 7 1218 2 1227
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 3 14 95 4254 69 4436
Near Japan * 0 1 25 88 156 12 282
Total 1 7 70 337 16034 171 16620

*; 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: 124
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)