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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

2010
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 16 134 569 9950 823 11493
Tohoku 4 11 94 528 30059 513 31209
Kanto 0 2 49 281 13946 253 14531
Chubu 0 2 16 181 13302 75 13576
Kinki 0 2 4 126 13952 166 14250
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 6 60 6628 69 6763
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 5 24 197 1388 29207 1840 32661
Near Japan * 8 96 637 1323 1250 197 3511
Total 18 153 1137 4456 118294 3936 127994

*; 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: 1313
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)