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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2007
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 11 43 827 57 938
Tohoku 0 1 9 33 1218 31 1292
Kanto 0 0 1 28 1190 13 1232
Chubu 0 0 2 27 1769 17 1815
Kinki 0 0 0 12 1183 31 1226
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 533 14 552
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 8 55 1420 82 1567
Near Japan * 1 11 31 60 66 8 177
Total 1 14 62 263 8206 253 8799

*; 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: 110
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)