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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

June 2012
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 10 37 721 24 792
Tohoku 1 3 38 266 3943 16 4267
Kanto 1 1 11 105 3291 7 3416
Chubu 0 0 3 16 1305 1 1325
Kinki 0 0 0 3 1207 0 1210
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 632 2 637
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 7 82 2523 137 2749
Near Japan * 1 4 37 151 164 4 361
Total 3 8 106 663 13786 191 14757

*; 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: 244
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)