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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

February 1999
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 16 59 438 27 543
Tohoku 0 3 4 40 627 22 696
Kanto 0 2 1 16 695 12 726
Chubu 0 0 1 10 487 9 507
Kinki 0 0 2 8 1454 49 1513
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 1 6 180 1 188
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 7 61 1158 45 1272
Near Japan * 0 2 13 39 28 2 84
Total 0 11 45 239 5067 167 5529

*; 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: 91
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)