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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2019
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 40 841 27 915
Tohoku 0 1 8 61 2949 63 3082
Kanto 0 2 4 39 2494 22 2561
Chubu 0 0 0 21 1925 9 1955
Kinki 0 0 1 6 1573 1 1581
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 1068 6 1078
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 1 20 69 4713 69 4873
Near Japan * 0 7 24 85 89 10 215
Total 1 11 65 324 15652 207 16260

*; 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: 158
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)