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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

May 1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 15 67 489 51 622
Tohoku 1 3 11 68 768 12 863
Kanto 0 2 9 64 2648 12 2735
Chubu 0 0 0 16 563 18 597
Kinki 0 0 1 11 504 17 533
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 1 1 9 209 0 220
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 1 4 39 208 2082 77 2411
Near Japan * 0 3 21 43 45 2 114
Total 2 13 97 486 7308 189 8095

*; 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: 156
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)