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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2007
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 40 693 45 785
Tohoku 0 1 7 28 1122 21 1179
Kanto 0 0 4 19 1218 10 1251
Chubu 0 1 4 33 3010 52 3100
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1359 19 1387
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 4 742 20 767
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 20 72 1941 176 2210
Near Japan * 0 8 30 65 92 7 202
Total 0 11 73 270 10177 350 10881

*; 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: 142
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)