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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 13 53 439 20 525
Tohoku 1 1 5 44 1151 30 1232
Kanto 0 0 4 27 598 4 633
Chubu 0 0 5 31 1951 17 2004
Kinki 0 0 0 6 447 8 461
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 7 207 1 216
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 2 22 107 2001 77 2209
Near Japan * 0 0 19 54 36 0 109
Total 1 3 69 329 6830 157 7389

*; 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: 147
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)