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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 5 35 700 30 770
Tohoku 0 2 29 124 2380 8 2543
Kanto 0 0 3 43 1349 4 1399
Chubu 0 0 0 22 1346 3 1371
Kinki 0 0 0 9 978 20 1007
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 507 4 515
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 4 76 1921 113 2115
Near Japan * 2 10 72 263 127 21 495
Total 2 13 113 576 9308 203 10215

*; 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: 164
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)