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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 15 57 480 39 592
Tohoku 0 2 4 39 1030 8 1083
Kanto 0 1 4 29 943 8 985
Chubu 0 2 14 61 3348 16 3441
Kinki 0 0 0 9 517 5 531
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 2 303 3 308
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 13 118 1945 37 2114
Near Japan * 1 1 18 55 60 2 137
Total 1 8 68 370 8626 118 9191

*; 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: 293
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)