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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

1999
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 1 16 159 630 5206 312 6324
Tohoku 0 9 50 467 8462 226 9214
Kanto 1 11 56 276 9056 85 9485
Chubu 0 0 16 182 7162 147 7507
Kinki 0 3 8 121 11467 175 11774
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 4 49 3369 27 3449
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 2 8 126 905 17053 936 19030
Near Japan * 10 34 215 638 450 28 1375
Total 14 81 634 3268 62225 1936 68158

*; 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: 1017
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)