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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 9 39 917 53 1018
Tohoku 0 4 28 191 8819 137 9179
Kanto 1 0 4 51 6076 66 6198
Chubu 0 0 1 13 1894 26 1934
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1314 6 1329
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 10 2950 15 2975
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 5 104 5697 86 5892
Near Japan * 2 7 38 81 94 22 244
Total 3 11 85 498 27761 411 28769

*; 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: 303
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)