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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 2019
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 8 43 712 20 785
Tohoku 0 0 14 54 2812 69 2949
Kanto 0 1 2 25 1950 25 2003
Chubu 0 0 2 18 2159 11 2190
Kinki 0 0 0 12 1339 5 1356
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 3 1032 6 1042
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 13 77 3187 51 3330
Near Japan * 0 2 32 88 95 5 222
Total 0 7 72 320 13286 192 13877

*; 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: 107
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)