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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 8 43 743 23 817
Tohoku 0 2 9 96 1531 7 1645
Kanto 0 0 6 28 763 5 802
Chubu 0 0 1 15 1206 3 1225
Kinki 0 0 0 6 926 13 945
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 557 20 580
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 16 87 2564 163 2831
Near Japan * 2 4 20 91 171 32 320
Total 2 7 60 369 8461 266 9165

*; 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: 141
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)