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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 9 42 753 29 836
Tohoku 0 2 11 165 2364 32 2574
Kanto 0 0 10 68 2150 10 2238
Chubu 0 0 0 21 1409 3 1433
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1123 16 1148
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 623 7 634
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 5 54 2292 166 2519
Near Japan * 1 2 29 88 114 26 260
Total 1 9 64 451 10828 289 11642

*; 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: 162
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)