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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2020
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 12 54 835 41 943
Tohoku 1 1 8 56 3878 83 4027
Kanto 0 2 5 37 2887 38 2969
Chubu 0 0 1 15 2460 45 2521
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1301 8 1315
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 1 0 3 874 3 881
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 8 98 3226 102 3435
Near Japan * 2 6 25 88 564 8 693
Total 3 12 59 357 16025 328 16784

*; 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: 163
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)