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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

October 1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 11 48 345 16 420
Tohoku 0 1 4 45 578 5 633
Kanto 0 0 5 18 744 1 768
Chubu 0 0 0 21 1597 36 1654
Kinki 0 0 0 12 448 6 466
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 196 1 202
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 0 1 70 1342 37 1451
Near Japan * 1 1 16 46 46 4 114
Total 2 2 37 265 5296 106 5708

*; 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: 75
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)