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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 11 48 873 10 943
Tohoku 0 0 7 80 4705 136 4928
Kanto 0 0 2 36 4319 89 4446
Chubu 0 0 1 23 2359 13 2396
Kinki 0 1 0 9 1767 5 1782
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 1721 4 1729
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 5 11 102 6775 143 7037
Near Japan * 0 2 16 85 146 18 267
Total 1 9 48 387 22665 418 23528

*; 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: 164
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)