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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

June 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 15 45 817 17 895
Tohoku 0 6 20 99 1682 6 1813
Kanto 0 0 4 49 1816 5 1874
Chubu 0 0 2 16 1121 3 1142
Kinki 0 0 1 4 1102 23 1130
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 676 12 693
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 8 60 2191 141 2400
Near Japan * 1 8 39 93 94 10 245
Total 1 15 89 371 9499 217 10192

*; 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: 160
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)