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Name:                    Salt Lake City, UT     
Local Date (Time):       May 22, 1910 (7:28 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         May 22, 1910 (1428)
Location:                Salt Lake City, UT 
Epicenter:               40 44.94  111 50.95 [1]
Magnitude:               5 1/2 +/- [6] 
Intensity:               VII [1] 
Felt Area:               9,000 Sq. Kilometers [7] 
  

Significant aftershocks:     None

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 Deseret Evening News (last date searched 06/03/1910)
      Headline:          Three Earthquake Shocks Sway Beneath Salt Lake
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   B, E, N, P, S

      Headline:          Gas Mains On Ninth East Leaking Like a Sieve
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   L

      Headline:          Tremblor Incidents Tersely Told
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   E, G, H, N, P

      Headline:          Record Of Calls On Telephone Exchanges
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   I, P

      Headline:          The Earthquake (editorial)
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   S

      Headline:          Shook Out Good Collection
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   H, P

      Headline:          Tremblor Awakens Residents This Morn
      Date:              05/25/1910
      Info Categories:   E

      Headline:          Another Tremblor Felt This Morning
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   E

      Headline:          The Daily Shake
      Date:              05/26/1910
      Info Categories:   E


 Ogden Morning Examiner (last date searched 05/27/1910)
      Headline:          Earthquake in Salt Lake City
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   E, N, S


 Ogden Standard (last date searched 05/28/1910)
      Headline:          Earthquake In Salt Lake
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   S
 
      Headline:          Earthquake In Salt Lake City
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   B, E, P

      Headline:          Growing Rather Serious
      Date:              05/24/1910
      Info Categories:   E, H


 Salt Lake Evening Telegram (last date searched  05/29/1910)
      Headline:          Earthquake Scares Some Salt Lakers
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   B, E, N, P

      Headline:          Seismograph Records No Additional Temblors
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   S

      Headline:          Geologist At University Discusses Recent Temblor
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   S

      Headline:          The Earthquake (editorial)
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   E, P

      Headline:          Slight Tremor Of Earth At Brighton
      Date:              05/25/1910
      Info Categories:   E


 Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 06/02/1910)
      Headline:          Salt Lake Is Rocked By Earthquake
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   E, H, N, P, S

      Headline:          Quakes Discussed From Scientific Standpoints
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   S

      Headline:          It Was Straight Business
      Date:              05/23/1910
      Info Categories:   E
 
      Headline:          Another Earthquake Shock Felt Monday
      Date:              05/24/1910
      Info Categories:   E
 
      Headline:          No Damage Done
      Date:              05/24/1910
      Info Categories:   E

      Headline:          Trumpet Of Moroni Is Jarred By Quake
      Date:              05/25/1910
      Info Categories:   N

      Headline:          This Man Knows Wasatch Fault
      Date:              05/26/1910
      Info Categories:   S

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     Title:            Earthquake History of Utah, 1850-1949
     Publication:      Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
     Info Categories:  B, E, N

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

     Title:            Effects of Six Damaging Earthquakes in SLC
     Publication:      Historical Earthquakes in Salt Lake City, Utah; 
                          Event and Institutional Response
     Info Categories:  B, N, P

     Title:            Appendix II: Sites, Types of Buildings, 
                          Earthquake Effects and MM Intensities for 
                          Earthquakes Investigated in This Study
     Publication:      Historical Earthquakes in Salt Lake City, Utah; 
                          Event and Institutional Response
     Info Categories:  B, N, P

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