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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2010
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 23 70 864 64 1024
Tohoku 0 3 10 42 3128 41 3224
Kanto 0 0 5 13 1117 25 1160
Chubu 0 0 0 21 1124 6 1151
Kinki 0 0 0 11 1223 8 1242
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 7 670 7 684
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 17 94 2526 187 2825
Near Japan * 0 12 50 115 98 29 304
Total 0 19 105 373 10750 367 11614

*; 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: 123
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)