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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2020
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 11 52 684 17 764
Tohoku 1 2 11 65 2495 64 2638
Kanto 0 1 5 26 2339 33 2404
Chubu 0 3 6 52 9521 110 9692
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1318 5 1329
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 5 1016 3 1025
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 20 68 3450 90 3630
Near Japan * 2 4 33 75 88 15 217
Total 3 12 87 349 20911 337 21699

*; 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: 208
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)