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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2010
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 15 44 782 94 938
Tohoku 0 1 12 32 1983 37 2065
Kanto 0 0 4 33 1376 13 1426
Chubu 0 0 2 16 1090 4 1112
Kinki 0 0 2 8 1135 23 1168
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 7 462 6 475
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 12 115 2924 156 3210
Near Japan * 0 10 22 64 65 8 169
Total 0 17 69 319 9817 341 10563

*; 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: 110
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)