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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 10 31 867 34 942
Tohoku 0 2 24 77 4311 190 4604
Kanto 0 1 3 39 4848 139 5030
Chubu 0 0 1 4 1434 14 1453
Kinki 0 0 0 10 1215 8 1233
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 4 1488 11 1504
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 11 46 4367 63 4487
Near Japan * 0 4 26 78 92 14 214
Total 0 7 76 289 18622 473 19467

*; 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: 145
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)