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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 7 44 735 42 829
Tohoku 3 14 61 379 3912 31 4400
Kanto 0 1 8 106 3607 11 3733
Chubu 0 0 2 11 1326 1 1340
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1135 3 1144
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 1 671 2 675
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 6 62 2546 174 2790
Near Japan * 1 10 26 182 189 10 418
Total 4 28 111 791 14121 274 15329

*; 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: 253
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)