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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 10 37 544 18 610
Tohoku 0 3 19 118 1734 9 1883
Kanto 0 0 5 51 1244 10 1310
Chubu 1 0 3 39 2710 13 2766
Kinki 0 0 1 13 1063 28 1105
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 662 18 684
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 8 84 2493 177 2763
Near Japan * 0 4 26 98 81 11 220
Total 1 9 73 443 10531 284 11341

*; 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: 266
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)