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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2007
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 9 50 899 63 1022
Tohoku 0 1 7 32 1202 48 1290
Kanto 0 1 7 24 1292 18 1342
Chubu 0 1 2 13 1338 28 1382
Kinki 0 0 1 12 1324 26 1363
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 539 12 556
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 11 61 1537 121 1731
Near Japan * 4 21 79 69 63 11 247
Total 4 26 116 266 8194 327 8933

*; 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: 102
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)