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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 2 17 139 518 9485 318 10479
Tohoku 3 23 287 1825 26319 136 28593
Kanto 2 25 106 816 21811 85 22845
Chubu 0 1 8 185 15414 51 15659
Kinki 1 0 9 119 14004 205 14338
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 44 7252 84 7381
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 28 105 999 33724 2005 36862
Near Japan * 13 71 423 1502 1313 181 3503
Total 22 165 1078 6008 129322 3065 139660

*; 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: 2383
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)