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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 1999
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 11 44 394 23 473
Tohoku 0 1 3 27 658 14 703
Kanto 0 0 4 23 642 4 673
Chubu 0 0 4 15 568 3 590
Kinki 0 1 0 11 752 10 774
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 345 10 359
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 12 93 1632 110 1848
Near Japan * 1 0 12 47 33 2 95
Total 1 4 46 264 5024 176 5515

*; 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: 79
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)