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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

January 1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 13 89 385 52 541
Tohoku 0 1 2 43 691 6 743
Kanto 0 1 3 41 810 11 866
Chubu 0 0 1 17 387 8 413
Kinki 0 0 2 9 262 3 276
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 129 1 134
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 7 82 1740 45 1874
Near Japan * 1 1 28 43 21 1 95
Total 1 5 56 328 4425 127 4942

*; 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: 105
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)