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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

June 1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 19 45 483 37 584
Tohoku 0 1 10 66 665 11 753
Kanto 0 1 5 31 1131 11 1179
Chubu 0 0 2 14 440 7 463
Kinki 0 1 3 5 475 7 491
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 4 190 0 195
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 12 119 1615 29 1777
Near Japan * 0 0 17 50 40 2 109
Total 0 5 69 334 5039 104 5551

*; 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: 92
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)