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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 2020
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 8 50 778 22 858
Tohoku 1 1 15 73 4193 83 4366
Kanto 0 1 9 31 2307 39 2387
Chubu 0 2 2 17 2960 21 3002
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1278 3 1290
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 892 4 898
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 12 82 2948 64 3106
Near Japan * 0 4 36 83 630 8 761
Total 1 8 82 347 15986 244 16668

*; 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: 135
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)