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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 2017
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 11 45 1132 20 1209
Tohoku 0 2 12 101 4775 173 5063
Kanto 0 0 3 52 4436 128 4619
Chubu 0 0 0 14 1849 16 1879
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1506 10 1522
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 6 1737 7 1750
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 3 6 66 5644 94 5813
Near Japan * 0 2 23 128 198 23 374
Total 0 8 55 418 21277 471 22229

*; 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: 157
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)