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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 11 43 770 23 847
Tohoku 0 1 16 115 2374 8 2514
Kanto 0 0 6 47 1462 5 1520
Chubu 0 0 1 14 1103 1 1119
Kinki 0 0 2 8 1003 22 1035
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 1 509 5 515
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 14 74 2833 180 3101
Near Japan * 1 4 36 68 96 4 209
Total 1 5 86 370 10150 248 10860

*; 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: 163
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)