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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2005
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 13 50 1243 52 1358
Tohoku 0 2 7 37 1374 30 1450
Kanto 1 1 10 29 1477 14 1532
Chubu 0 0 2 12 1302 4 1320
Kinki 0 0 0 10 1309 23 1342
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 781 12 799
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 3 68 2441 226 2739
Near Japan * 0 11 65 185 122 7 390
Total 1 15 100 397 10049 368 10930

*; 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: 128
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)