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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2019
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 11 41 807 18 879
Tohoku 1 1 11 72 3016 34 3135
Kanto 0 0 1 21 2243 10 2275
Chubu 0 0 2 8 1534 1 1545
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1673 8 1690
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 1152 2 1158
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 19 185 3949 76 4232
Near Japan * 1 8 35 74 122 16 256
Total 2 14 79 414 14496 165 15170

*; 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: 111
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)