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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 35 756 31 829
Tohoku 0 1 14 131 2013 8 2167
Kanto 0 1 3 76 1512 5 1597
Chubu 0 0 0 11 1060 4 1075
Kinki 0 0 0 2 1068 21 1091
Chugoku, Shikoku 1 0 1 2 558 5 567
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 2 7 54 2267 125 2456
Near Japan * 1 6 31 127 119 11 295
Total 3 10 63 438 9353 210 10077

*; 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: 159
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)