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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 10 48 673 45 777
Tohoku 0 19 234 1478 14695 16 16442
Kanto 0 8 63 446 8591 15 9123
Chubu 0 0 2 18 2331 10 2361
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1353 12 1374
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 644 5 656
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 4 74 3113 243 3435
Near Japan * 1 8 92 448 107 13 669
Total 1 37 407 2526 31507 359 34837

*; 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: 932
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)