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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2004
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 23 64 1336 227 1652
Tohoku 0 1 4 33 1282 56 1376
Kanto 0 0 3 23 1145 7 1178
Chubu 0 0 2 14 897 6 919
Kinki 0 0 0 7 1049 58 1114
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 553 10 567
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 6 52 1520 158 1738
Near Japan * 0 3 19 54 57 20 153
Total 0 8 57 251 7839 542 8697

*; 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: 99
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)