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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

July 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 5 34 891 30 960
Tohoku 4 12 145 953 5015 6 6135
Kanto 0 3 28 276 4460 12 4779
Chubu 0 0 1 15 2416 4 2436
Kinki 0 1 4 8 1628 10 1651
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 667 7 678
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 6 64 2458 149 2679
Near Japan * 0 6 47 261 169 13 496
Total 4 24 236 1615 17704 231 19814

*; 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: 592
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)