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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2009
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 13 41 766 52 874
Tohoku 0 1 8 34 1929 25 1997
Kanto 0 1 5 19 1149 26 1200
Chubu 0 0 0 18 1658 7 1683
Kinki 0 0 1 11 1131 15 1158
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 608 3 612
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 1 9 91 3286 162 3550
Near Japan * 1 5 26 63 70 6 171
Total 2 10 62 278 10597 296 11245

*; 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: 106
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)