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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2019
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 9 40 878 15 942
Tohoku 2 2 13 55 3601 47 3720
Kanto 0 0 1 16 2448 15 2480
Chubu 0 0 3 17 2255 5 2280
Kinki 0 0 0 2 1499 6 1507
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 1064 2 1071
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 5 92 3603 48 3750
Near Japan * 1 5 40 100 104 14 264
Total 3 9 71 327 15452 152 16014

*; 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: 104
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)