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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

June 2006
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 4 13 53 861 37 968
Tohoku 0 2 6 44 1364 26 1442
Kanto 0 0 7 19 1434 27 1487
Chubu 0 0 1 19 1269 8 1297
Kinki 0 0 2 10 1295 24 1331
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 2 598 6 607
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 13 59 1970 113 2156
Near Japan * 0 5 18 79 121 10 233
Total 1 11 61 285 8912 251 9521

*; 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: 102
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)