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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2016
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 45 752 42 846
Tohoku 2 10 112 643 10310 156 11233
Kanto 0 1 6 26 2509 54 2596
Chubu 0 0 0 16 1727 8 1751
Kinki 0 1 2 4 1376 8 1391
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 10 5916 41 5967
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 11 89 6037 126 6265
Near Japan * 0 4 35 85 106 21 251
Total 2 18 173 918 28733 456 30300

*; 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: 377
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)