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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 13 49 722 76 861
Tohoku 7 36 527 2870 30932 21 34393
Kanto 2 13 100 794 10671 32 11612
Chubu 0 1 4 33 3449 19 3506
Kinki 0 0 0 5 1210 15 1230
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 4 602 9 616
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 8 151 3541 292 3994
Near Japan * 1 6 137 412 90 18 664
Total 10 59 790 4318 51217 482 56876

*; 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: 1958
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)