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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2019
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 9 39 596 24 669
Tohoku 0 3 5 57 2528 63 2656
Kanto 0 0 7 44 2162 22 2235
Chubu 0 0 2 11 1891 9 1913
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1403 5 1417
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 7 1215 3 1226
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 8 72 2962 44 3087
Near Japan * 0 1 25 67 90 4 187
Total 0 6 57 306 12847 174 13390

*; 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: 127
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)