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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 2 26 52 667 46 794
Tohoku 0 1 14 122 2224 11 2372
Kanto 0 9 9 55 1689 13 1775
Chubu 0 0 0 15 1181 8 1204
Kinki 0 0 0 14 1053 26 1093
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 562 10 575
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 8 71 2623 140 2842
Near Japan * 2 4 28 129 87 7 257
Total 3 16 85 461 10086 261 10912

*; 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: 170
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)