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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 8 172 745 5047 411 6383
Tohoku 2 13 69 536 8942 144 9706
Kanto 0 9 75 451 13686 96 14317
Chubu 0 5 30 241 11367 162 11805
Kinki 0 2 9 102 5487 107 5707
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 1 4 58 2384 14 2461
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 3 16 171 1166 21472 559 23387
Near Japan * 6 18 209 547 446 20 1246
Total 11 72 739 3846 68831 1513 75012

*; 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: 1513
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)