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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 9 43 606 25 685
Tohoku 0 0 11 76 3350 340 3777
Kanto 0 0 4 36 3506 69 3615
Chubu 0 0 0 12 1874 18 1904
Kinki 0 0 0 3 1357 2 1362
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 1114 2 1118
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 5 62 4940 101 5109
Near Japan * 2 7 43 161 125 42 380
Total 2 10 72 395 16872 599 17950

*; 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: 144
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)