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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 2014
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 8 40 843 19 910
Tohoku 0 4 19 97 2074 2 2196
Kanto 0 0 9 69 1354 8 1440
Chubu 0 0 1 14 1220 2 1237
Kinki 0 0 0 13 1263 26 1302
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 568 3 577
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 11 56 2641 210 2918
Near Japan * 0 6 25 87 110 10 238
Total 0 10 73 382 10073 280 10818

*; 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: 153
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)