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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2018
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 13 66 1381 42 1505
Tohoku 0 2 25 53 3320 64 3464
Kanto 0 2 6 29 2778 28 2843
Chubu 0 1 1 13 2170 6 2191
Kinki 0 0 1 16 1940 2 1959
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 1079 6 1088
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 2 0 15 142 4666 86 4911
Near Japan * 0 6 19 89 103 14 231
Total 2 14 80 411 17437 248 18192

*; 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: 183
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)