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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2007
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 13 42 770 75 900
Tohoku 0 0 2 25 1103 12 1142
Kanto 0 1 4 23 1128 29 1185
Chubu 0 0 0 22 1876 11 1909
Kinki 0 0 0 11 1295 24 1330
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 526 4 531
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 11 54 1798 88 1952
Near Japan * 3 3 24 63 127 5 225
Total 3 5 54 241 8623 248 9174

*; 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: 126
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)