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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

September 1999
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 16 64 431 22 536
Tohoku 0 0 5 40 665 18 728
Kanto 0 1 1 17 714 4 737
Chubu 0 0 1 19 953 15 988
Kinki 0 0 0 4 783 11 798
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 3 355 2 360
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 6 62 1256 61 1385
Near Japan * 5 10 39 93 53 4 204
Total 5 14 68 302 5210 137 5736

*; 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: 50
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)