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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 7 37 728 49 821
Tohoku 0 2 12 128 2370 17 2529
Kanto 0 1 11 57 1710 11 1790
Chubu 0 0 2 18 1127 8 1155
Kinki 0 0 0 9 1046 14 1069
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 601 11 614
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 7 69 2479 187 2743
Near Japan * 0 5 46 126 108 11 296
Total 0 9 85 446 10169 308 11017

*; 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: 152
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)