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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2011
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 15 41 1093 52 1201
Tohoku 2 7 91 692 6694 38 7524
Kanto 1 1 48 244 4027 4 4325
Chubu 1 1 0 23 2378 10 2413
Kinki 0 0 1 6 1324 13 1344
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 636 12 651
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 13 69 2811 275 3168
Near Japan * 1 10 53 276 121 5 466
Total 5 19 221 1354 19084 409 21092

*; 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: 566
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)