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SUMMARY OF SOUTHERN UTAH 1901 EARTHQUAKE
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Name: Southern Utah Local Date (Time): Nov 13, 1901 (9:39 p.m.) GMT Date (Time): Nov 14, 1901 (0439) Location: near Richfield, UT Epicenter: 38 46.15 112 05.02 [1] Magnitude: 6 1/2 +/- [6] Intensity: IX [1] Felt Area: 130,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]Numbers in brackets indicate source of information. See Reference ListSignificant aftershocks: None
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Newspaper Accounts
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Deseret Evening News (last date searched 12/06/1901)
Headline: Buildings Were Badly Wrecked
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: B, E, G, H, I, N, P
Headline: Ran Screaming
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Parowan Shocked
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: E
Headline: Felt at Nephi
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: E
Headline: Three Shocks at Cedar
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: E, P
Headline: Oasis Shaken Up
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: E, P
Headline: Shock in Salt Lake
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: E, H, N, P
Headline: Monroe. Severe Earthquake Shock Unnerves the People
Date: 11/15/1901
Info Categories: B, E, N
Headline: Kanosh. Echoes of the Earthquake
Date: 11/15/1901
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Holden. Slight Earthquake Shock
Date: 11/15/1901
Info Categories: E
Headline: Junction. Severe Shock of Earthquake
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: B, E, G, L, P
Headline: Elsinore. Damaged by Earthquake. But Few Whole Houses Left in Town.
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: B, E, P
Headline: Circleville. Quiet of this Peaceful Town Rudely Shocked by Seismic Disturbance
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: N, P
Headline: Moab. Earthwaves Felt in Eastern Utah
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: E
Headline: Burrville. People Are Frightened But No Damage Done by Earthquake
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: E, P
Headline: Aurora. How It Feels To Be "Shaken"
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: B, E, N, P
Headline: Richfield. Injured By Earthquake--Best Buildings Suffer Most
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: B, N
Headline: Annabella. Announced Its Approach; Earthquake Came As a Rushing Noise
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: B, E, N
Headline: Electrical Display in Sanpete
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: E, G
Headline: St. George. No Serious Damage From Visit of Earthquake
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Bloomington. Earthquake Shock
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: E
Headline: Thurber. Ward Reorganized; Whole Town Literally and Spiritually Shaken Up
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: E
Headline: Panguitch. Thought of Judgement Day
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: B, E, N, P
Headline: Harmony. Earthquake Shock More or Less Severe Thoughout Dixie
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: E, P
Headline: Loa. Wayne County Stirred Up by Earthquake--No Serious Damage
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Panaca, Nevada. Lincoln County Feels the Seismic Waves.
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Beaver Earthquake Damages
Date: 11/20/1901
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, P
Headline: Provo. Mt. Baldy Severely Shaken
Date: 11/22/1901
Info Categories: E, G, P
Headline: Mammoth. Earthquake Causes a Water Famine
Date: 11/25/1901
Info Categories: L
Headline: Koosharem. Peculiar Freaks of the Recent Earthquake
Date: 11/29/1901
Info Categories: E, G, N, P
Headline: Dr. J.E. Talmage On Utah Earthquakes
Date: 11/30/1901
Info Categories: S
Headline: Earthquakes For the Past Month
Date: 12/06/1901
Info Categories: E, G, L
Salt Lake Herald (last date searched 12/08/1901)
Headline: Whole State Is Shaken Up By a Severe Earthquake
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Loss from Earthquake May Reach $100,000
Date: 11/15/1901
Info Categories: B, E, G, I, L, N, P
Headline: Earthquakes (editorial)
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: S
Headline: Forty Drunks, Fifteen Fights and an Earthquake in One Night
Date: 11/19/1901
Info Categories: E, L
Headline: Felt Sixty Shocks
Date: 11/21/1901
Info Categories: E, P
Headline: Heavy Earthquake Shakes Ground Loose
Date: 11/25/1901
Info Categories: G
Headline: Marysvale People Still Enjoy Four Earthquake Shocks Per Day
Date: 12/07/1901
Info Categories: E, G
Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 12/07/1901)
Headline: Salt Lake Shaken Up
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: E, H, N, P
Headline: Southern Utah Shaken
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: B, E, N
Headline: Utah Towns Shaken
Date: 11/15/1901
Info Categories: B, E, G, L, N, P
Headline: Echoes of the Earthquake
Date: 11/16/1901
Info Categories: B, E, N, P
Headline: The Earthquake at Loa
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: E
Headline: Poker Players Prayed
Date: 11/18/1901
Info Categories: H, P
Headline: Earthquake Shocks Daily
Date: 11/21/1901
Info Categories: E
Headline: Matters in Sevier
Date: 11/25/1901
Info Categories: G
Headline: Earthquake Increases Water
Date: 11/26/1901
Info Categories: G
Headline: Earthquakes at Marysvale
Date: 12/07/1901
Info Categories: E, G, P
The Standard (Ogden) (last date searched 11/14/1901)
Headline: Earthquake in Utah Did Much Damage
Date: 11/14/1901
Info Categories: B, E, N
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Description: Beaver County Courthouse sometime before 1910.
Source: Utah State Historical Society
Info Categories: B
Description: Beaver County Courthouse, 1968.
Source: Utah State Historical Society
Info Categories: B, R
Description: Beaver County Courthouse, 1991; closeup of wall crack.
Source: University of Utah Seismograph Stations
Info Categories: B, R
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Additional Sources of Information Available
Title: Earthquake History of Utah, 1850-1949
Publication: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Info Categories: B, E, G, L, P
Title: Earthquake in Utah
Publication: Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised)
Info Categories: B, E, G, L
Title: Senator Lewis Knows of Two Extinct Volcanoes
Publication: Salt Lake Telegram 11/18/1902
Info Categories: G
Title: Conditions Around Mt. Baldy
Publication: Deseret News 11/28/1902
Info Categories: B, G
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