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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2020
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 12 51 764 14 842
Tohoku 0 2 7 57 3067 44 3177
Kanto 0 4 5 35 2569 31 2644
Chubu 0 2 11 52 15430 88 15583
Kinki 0 0 1 8 1476 2 1487
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 2 1087 4 1094
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 1 14 128 4100 78 4322
Near Japan * 0 5 29 87 125 17 263
Total 1 15 80 420 28618 278 29412

*; 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: 213
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)