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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 2020
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 0 8 31 793 25 858
Tohoku 0 1 7 55 2509 95 2667
Kanto 0 3 4 28 2422 29 2486
Chubu 0 0 1 10 1834 9 1854
Kinki 0 0 0 17 1349 6 1372
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 1066 11 1082
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 11 68 3183 50 3312
Near Japan * 0 5 37 76 96 8 222
Total 1 9 68 290 13252 233 13853

*; 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: 103
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)