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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2003
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 29 102 1835 322 2291
Tohoku 1 6 30 138 2177 79 2431
Kanto 0 2 5 24 1186 13 1230
Chubu 0 0 1 16 873 4 894
Kinki 1 0 0 6 1094 43 1144
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 629 11 643
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 16 73 1933 194 2216
Near Japan * 1 3 25 41 43 15 128
Total 3 14 106 403 9770 681 10977

*; 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: 124
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)