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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 12 46 809 73 941
Tohoku 0 1 13 66 3088 14 3182
Kanto 0 1 6 30 1179 19 1235
Chubu 0 0 0 16 1341 12 1369
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1182 18 1209
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 589 3 597
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 4 52 1786 90 1932
Near Japan * 0 8 26 71 71 6 182
Total 0 11 62 294 10045 235 10647

*; 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: 133
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)