Japan's >5R events this year so far.

The map above, like the one we posted for New Zealand, shows the epicenters of this year's events around Japan. The magnitudes are in the band between 5-6R. We can see in the map below that in the region shown by the arrow, there has been no event within this band this year. The stress has been on the Eastern Side of the Island clustering around (37N, 142E).