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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

June 2000
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 34 529 20 590
Tohoku 0 0 3 37 739 17 796
Kanto 1 9 127 770 2899 111 3917
Chubu 1 0 7 23 801 10 842
Kinki 0 0 1 7 831 10 849
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 10 348 1 359
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 2 1 13 89 2639 110 2854
Near Japan * 2 7 21 52 94 8 184
Total 6 17 179 1022 8880 287 10391

*; 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: 1849
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)