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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 5 35 671 45 756
Tohoku 1 4 41 205 3501 25 3777
Kanto 0 1 13 101 3307 7 3429
Chubu 0 0 1 17 1378 3 1399
Kinki 0 0 0 11 911 9 931
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 671 9 684
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 12 84 2802 166 3066
Near Japan * 1 7 27 141 107 1 284
Total 2 14 100 597 13348 265 14326

*; 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: 272
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)