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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2020
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 6 100 547 9545 254 10453
Tohoku 3 9 108 702 38807 829 40458
Kanto 1 17 67 348 29058 379 29870
Chubu 0 10 34 282 56657 387 57370
Kinki 0 1 5 94 16405 50 16555
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 1 4 44 12566 65 12680
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 2 32 193 1068 42916 1009 45220
Near Japan * 6 53 374 1074 3262 156 4925
Total 13 129 885 4159 209216 3129 217531

*; 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: 1712
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)