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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 8 52 661 17 740
Tohoku 1 2 22 142 2057 12 2236
Kanto 0 1 9 82 2188 2 2282
Chubu 0 0 0 11 1395 4 1410
Kinki 0 0 0 8 1386 13 1407
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 738 3 746
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 10 72 3460 182 3725
Near Japan * 1 7 26 106 129 12 281
Total 2 13 75 478 12014 245 12827

*; 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: 204
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)