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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 5 36 1079 118 1239
Tohoku 56 294 1767 4431 19349 112 26009
Kanto 20 109 498 2187 10940 157 13911
Chubu 2 2 20 186 7595 100 7905
Kinki 0 0 1 10 1188 30 1229
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 617 26 649
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 11 92 2617 367 3089
Near Japan * 5 31 418 335 46 17 852
Total 83 439 2720 7283 43431 927 54883

*; 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: 4017
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)