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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2006
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 9 46 849 62 967
Tohoku 0 0 4 26 1300 25 1355
Kanto 0 1 8 20 1514 34 1577
Chubu 0 0 0 13 1040 12 1065
Kinki 0 0 3 11 1591 38 1643
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 2 617 4 625
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 10 69 2037 103 2220
Near Japan * 0 3 17 70 74 7 171
Total 0 6 53 257 9022 285 9623

*; 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: 109
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)