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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

August 1999
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 3 11 43 533 24 614
Tohoku 0 0 5 29 749 21 804
Kanto 0 0 4 16 799 9 828
Chubu 0 0 1 17 605 17 640
Kinki 0 1 1 9 983 13 1007
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 4 274 4 282
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 8 68 1143 35 1254
Near Japan * 0 2 10 46 37 6 101
Total 0 6 40 232 5123 129 5530

*; 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: 77
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)