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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2022
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 18 65 815 24 924
Tohoku 2 5 74 512 14722 453 15768
Kanto 0 0 4 22 1856 37 1919
Chubu 0 0 3 30 3245 31 3309
Kinki 0 0 2 9 1438 7 1456
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 975 4 985
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 9 19 173 3854 143 4198
Near Japan * 1 8 48 140 592 34 823
Total 3 24 168 957 27497 733 29382

*; 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: 273
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)