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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2004
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 5 31 258 853 19483 1763 22393
Tohoku 0 14 99 447 16432 358 17350
Kanto 1 12 56 360 13615 128 14172
Chubu 5 24 109 601 19660 71 20470
Kinki 4 7 86 624 17156 611 18488
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 4 47 7994 203 8248
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 3 19 121 864 21849 1834 24690
Near Japan * 3 54 343 817 1089 210 2516
Total 21 161 1076 4613 117278 5178 128327

*; 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: 2252
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)