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SUMMARY OF OGDEN 1914 EARTHQUAKE

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Name:                    Ogden, UT     
Local Date (Time):       May 13, 1914  (10:15 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         May 13, 1914  (1715)
Location:                Ogden, UT
Epicenter:               41 13.45   111 57.55   [1]
Magnitude:               5 1/2 +/- [6]
Intensity:               VII  [1]
Felt Area:               21,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]

Significant aftershocks: None

Numbers in brackets indicate source of information. See Reference List

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Newspaper Accounts

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 Deseret Evening News (last date searched 05/16/1914)
                      No articles found


 Ogden Examiner (last date searched 05/18/1914)
      Headline:          Two Earthquake Shocks In Ogden
      Date:              05/14/1914
      Info Categories:   B, E, N, P


 Salt Lake Herald Republican  (last date searched 05/17/1914)
      Headline:          Earthquake Is Cause Of Many Strange Thrills
      Date:              05/14/1914
      Info Categories:   E, N, P


 Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 05/18/1914)
      Headline:          Wasatch Fault Has Just A Little Slip
      Date:              05/14/1914
      Info Categories:   E, S

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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, N, P

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