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SUMMARY OF PAROWAN 1933 EARTHQUAKE

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Name:                    Parowan, UT
Local Date (Time):       Jan 20, 1933  (8:10 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Jan 20, 1933  (1310)
Location:                Parowan, UT
Epicenter:               37 50.52   112 49.63   [1]
Magnitude:               5.0  [1]
Intensity:               VI  [1]
Felt Area:               3,000 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 News  (last date searched 01/26/1933)
     Headline:        Quake Felt
     Date:            01/23/1933
     Info Categories: E


 Garfield County News  (last date searched 02/10/1933)
     Headline:        Earthquake Felt In Panguitch
     Date:            02/03/1933
     Info Categories: E, N


 Iron County Record   (last date searched  02/16/1933)
                   No articles found


 Salt Lake Telegram  (last date searched 01/30/1933)
                   No articles found


 Salt Lake Tribune  (last date searched 01/23/1933)
                   No articles found

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Individual Accounts Available

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

     Title:            Earthquake History of Utah, 1850-1949
     Publication:      Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1953)
     Info Categories:  B, E, N
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