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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

March 1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 0 16 68 402 38 524
Tohoku 0 2 11 51 704 10 778
Kanto 0 1 2 25 733 2 763
Chubu 0 1 0 18 371 4 394
Kinki 0 0 0 7 444 21 472
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 176 2 181
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 7 62 2198 44 2311
Near Japan * 0 2 10 37 30 0 79
Total 0 6 46 271 5058 121 5502

*; 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: 60
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)