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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 16 45 568 31 662
Tohoku 0 3 22 113 1988 9 2135
Kanto 0 3 7 75 1621 2 1708
Chubu 0 1 0 18 1197 4 1220
Kinki 0 0 2 9 1067 29 1107
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 7 530 10 547
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 11 84 2517 210 2824
Near Japan * 1 5 49 223 133 23 434
Total 1 16 107 574 9621 318 10637

*; 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: 194
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)