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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 16 40 1032 36 1126
Tohoku 3 3 27 107 4061 18 4219
Kanto 0 1 7 29 1343 17 1397
Chubu 0 0 2 14 1688 10 1714
Kinki 0 0 1 6 1368 12 1387
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 649 7 659
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 11 63 1954 97 2126
Near Japan * 3 7 50 94 88 9 251
Total 7 13 114 356 12183 206 12879

*; 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: 167
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)