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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 2022
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 5 37 873 19 934
Tohoku 0 2 13 120 7766 115 8016
Kanto 1 1 5 31 2539 58 2635
Chubu 0 0 2 14 4090 27 4133
Kinki 0 1 1 8 1909 2 1921
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 2 1 1135 3 1141
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 5 13 108 3622 82 3831
Near Japan * 1 10 36 140 654 22 863
Total 3 19 77 459 22588 328 23474

*; 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: 149
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)