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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 0 13 49 662 73 798
Tohoku 1 0 55 411 5838 31 6336
Kanto 0 4 16 162 4361 5 4548
Chubu 0 0 2 21 1657 4 1684
Kinki 0 0 0 11 1221 7 1239
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 1 3 9 1118 19 1150
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 7 76 2251 239 2573
Near Japan * 1 1 32 211 116 10 371
Total 3 6 128 950 17224 388 18699

*; 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: 357
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)