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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 2013
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 14 45 805 27 894
Tohoku 1 1 27 164 2286 5 2484
Kanto 0 0 9 67 1712 8 1796
Chubu 0 0 1 13 1396 5 1415
Kinki 0 0 2 2 1251 11 1266
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 722 4 729
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 9 82 3554 181 3827
Near Japan * 0 4 22 98 108 18 250
Total 1 9 84 474 11834 259 12661

*; 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: 209
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)