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Name:                    Kanab, UT
Local Date (Time):       Dec 05, 1887  (8:30 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Dec 05, 1887  (1530)
Location:                Kanab, UT
Epicenter:               37 02.84   112 31.34   [1]
Magnitude:               5.7  [1]
Intensity:               VII  [1]
Felt Area:               not available
  

Significant aftershocks:     None

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  Deseret Evening News  (last date searched 12/15/1887)
      Headline:             Earthquake at Kanab
      Date:                 12/10/1887
      Info Categories:      B, E, G, N, P


   Salt Lake Tribune  (last date searched 12/11/1887)
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     Title:             Earthquake History of Utah, 1850-1949
     Publication:       Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
     Info. Categories:  B, E, G, N, P 

     Title:             Earthquakes in Utah 
     Publication:       Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised)
     Info. Categories:  B, G, P 

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