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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2019
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 14 134 503 9815 249 10715
Tohoku 5 12 123 737 37917 624 39418
Kanto 0 8 50 346 29598 286 30288
Chubu 0 0 19 201 26681 89 26990
Kinki 1 1 3 76 17463 47 17591
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 5 42 13144 40 13231
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 3 23 159 1143 44437 730 46495
Near Japan * 10 60 364 1060 1323 116 2933
Total 19 118 857 4108 180378 2181 187661

*; 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: 1563
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)