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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2015
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 1 11 40 827 9 889
Tohoku 0 2 17 78 1763 4 1864
Kanto 0 0 11 71 1257 2 1341
Chubu 0 0 1 11 1374 0 1386
Kinki 0 0 0 9 997 9 1015
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 4 615 18 638
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 9 60 1781 139 1990
Near Japan * 0 1 41 105 110 6 263
Total 1 5 91 378 8724 187 9386

*; 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: 135
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)