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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 1999
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 11 56 409 24 500
Tohoku 0 0 5 52 683 16 756
Kanto 0 1 4 23 673 6 707
Chubu 0 0 0 10 608 34 652
Kinki 0 0 1 9 900 12 922
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 231 2 237
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 15 77 1261 40 1394
Near Japan * 1 0 18 35 21 1 76
Total 1 2 54 266 4786 135 5244

*; 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: 71
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)