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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 8 41 749 20 818
Tohoku 0 2 7 80 1811 3 1903
Kanto 0 2 3 43 2006 11 2065
Chubu 0 0 1 7 1426 3 1437
Kinki 0 0 1 12 1093 14 1120
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 958 10 972
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 2 83 3228 235 3551
Near Japan * 0 7 35 97 128 8 275
Total 0 14 57 367 11399 304 12141

*; 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: 196
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)