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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2018
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 9 38 658 30 735
Tohoku 0 1 10 66 3097 417 3591
Kanto 0 0 5 28 2768 68 2869
Chubu 0 0 1 12 1790 23 1826
Kinki 0 0 1 4 1345 4 1354
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 2 0 3 1271 13 1289
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 10 106 4357 124 4597
Near Japan * 4 15 49 179 101 215 563
Total 4 18 85 436 15387 894 16824

*; 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: 107
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)