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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 8 45 718 36 809
Tohoku 0 2 32 234 2356 16 2640
Kanto 0 1 12 59 1552 3 1627
Chubu 0 0 0 13 1094 2 1109
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1122 13 1144
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 674 12 687
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 5 80 2204 161 2452
Near Japan * 0 9 28 116 97 14 264
Total 0 16 85 557 9817 257 10732

*; 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: 187
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)