how often are there earthquakes in nagoya, kyoto, and tokyo?

Question

how many earthquakes do they have a year and how bad are they?

Answer 1

As often as the locals piss Kami off I would suppose?


no... really...

Probably just about as often if not more so than California. They have them all the time, just not huge ones.

The Huge ones happen every couple of decades. The large ones once or twice a year.

Answer 2

In Northern Japan in 07' so far, there have been 23 quakes, including today's in Ishikawa Pref. In the Tokai region 12.
06' there were 149 quakes. In the Tokai region 82.
05', there were 170 quakes. In the Tokai region 48.
04' there were 234 quakes. In the Tokai region 74.
03' there were 116 quakes. In the Tokai region 21.

Tokai is the region of Tokyo. I got these statistics from the Earthquake Information Center based at the University of Tokyo.

http://wwweic.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GRiD_MT/

From looking at the data, there are between 4-7 quakes a month in the Tokai region. That seems to me to be a lot.

And they average around 5 on the Japanese magnitude scale.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

Sometimes 3 times a month.. depends on the location. In Tokyo, I got used to people being calm when it was really low magnitude, anytime is always a risk..

Answer 4

An earthquake was just reported seconds ago in Japan. Did not say where. It is 2:55 Central Time in USA. No details yet.
Sea of Japan coast line--1 killed, 170 injured.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_re_as/japan_quote_20

Answer 5

sometimes

Answer 6

always .