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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

April 1998
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 2 14 65 487 46 614
Tohoku 0 1 7 26 688 9 731
Kanto 0 2 16 118 2958 7 3101
Chubu 0 0 3 12 449 7 471
Kinki 0 1 1 9 646 9 666
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 7 192 0 199
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 1 16 67 2400 52 2536
Near Japan * 1 2 25 47 37 2 114
Total 1 9 82 351 7857 132 8432

*; 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: 238
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)