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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

December 2019
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 27 57 759 28 872
Tohoku 0 2 8 56 2924 89 3079
Kanto 0 0 9 30 3525 36 3600
Chubu 0 0 1 16 1910 6 1933
Kinki 0 0 1 2 1326 0 1329
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 1070 8 1080
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 13 80 3394 60 3548
Near Japan * 1 6 39 118 138 8 310
Total 1 10 98 361 15046 235 15751

*; 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: 143
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)