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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2003
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 1 14 48 913 95 1072
Tohoku 0 1 4 33 984 28 1050
Kanto 1 0 6 27 1106 21 1161
Chubu 0 0 1 9 788 8 806
Kinki 0 0 0 5 1048 48 1101
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 837 36 880
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 16 63 2107 264 2451
Near Japan * 0 4 32 51 45 12 144
Total 2 7 74 242 7828 512 8665

*; 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: 94
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)