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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

June 2005
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 14 57 1117 50 1238
Tohoku 0 0 6 29 1337 22 1394
Kanto 0 1 11 26 1532 14 1584
Chubu 0 2 4 13 1667 5 1691
Kinki 0 0 0 13 1373 20 1406
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 679 8 690
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 15 77 3086 302 3482
Near Japan * 0 5 26 66 70 9 176
Total 0 10 76 284 10861 430 11661

*; 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: 138
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)