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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 13 60 658 16 749
Tohoku 1 3 14 115 1685 10 1828
Kanto 0 0 4 44 1502 3 1553
Chubu 0 0 1 17 1084 1 1103
Kinki 0 0 0 8 1000 22 1030
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 627 14 645
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 5 84 2082 139 2313
Near Japan * 0 2 16 83 63 10 174
Total 1 10 54 414 8701 215 9395

*; 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: 142
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)