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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 14 50 1068 41 1176
Tohoku 2 12 87 513 6167 46 6827
Kanto 1 3 27 190 3967 3 4191
Chubu 0 0 0 11 1629 8 1648
Kinki 0 0 1 6 986 7 1000
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 492 4 500
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 5 80 2263 217 2565
Near Japan * 0 2 37 214 100 7 360
Total 3 20 171 1068 16672 333 18267

*; 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: 464
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)