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SUMMARY OF HANSEL VALLEY 1934 EARTHQUAKE
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Name: Hansel Valley, UT Local Date (Time): Mar 12, 1934 (8:05 a.m.) GMT Date (Time): Mar 12, 1934 (1505) Location: ~ 30 mi. N of Lakeside (north of Great Salt Lake) Epicenter: 41 39.60 112 48.00 [6] Magnitude: 6.6 [6] Intensity: IX [1] Felt Area: 405,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]Numbers in brackets indicate source of information. See Reference ListSignificant aftershocks: Name: Hansel Valley, UT Local Date (Time): Mar 12, 1934 (11:20 a.m.) GMT Date (Time): Mar 12, 1934 (1820) Location: ~ 35 mi. WSW of Tremonton, UT Epicenter: 41 42.00 112 48.00 [1] Magnitude: 6 [6] Intensity: VII [7] Felt Area: 165,000 Sq. Kilometers [7] Name: Hansel Valley, UT Local Date (Time): Mar 15, 1934 (5:02 a.m.) GMT Date (Time): Mar 15, 1934 (1202) Location: ~ 35 mi. WSW of Tremonton, UT Epicenter: 41 42.00 112 48.00 [1] Magnitude: 5.1 [1] Intensity: VI [1] Felt Area: not available Name: Hansel Valley, UT Local Date (Time): Apr 06, 1934 (7:16 p.m.) GMT Date (Time): Apr 07, 1934 (0216) Location: ~ 20 mi. E of Paradise, UT (note: earthquake likely mislocated) Epicenter: 41 30.00 111 30.00 [1] Magnitude: 5.5 [6] Intensity: III [7] Felt Area: not available Name: Hansel Valley, UT Local Date (Time): Apr 14, 1934 (2:26 p.m.) GMT Date (Time): Apr 14, 1934 (2126) Location: ~ 20 mi. WSW of Corinne, UT Epicenter: 41 30.00 112 30.00 [1] Magnitude: 5.6 [6] Intensity: VII [1] Felt Area: 78,000 [7] Name: Hansel Valley, UT Local Date (Time): May 06, 1934 (1:09 a.m.) GMT Date (Time): May 06, 1934 (0809) Location: ~ 35 mi. SW of Malad City, ID Epicenter: 42 00.00 112 48.00 [1] Magnitude: 5 1/2 [6] Intensity: VI [1] Felt Area: 78,000 [7]
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Box Elder Journal (Brigham City, UT) (last date searched 05/24/1934)
Headline: Earthquake Felt Here Yesterday
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, P, S
Headline: The Earthquake Plays Pranks In Box Elder
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: G
Headline: Quake Is Felt At Snowville
Date: 03/15/1934
Info Categories: B, I, P
Headline: The Geologist Tells Story of Earth Tremors
Date: 03/16/1934
Info Categories: G, P
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) (last date searched 05/08/1934)
Headline: Utah Rocked By Severe Earthquake
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: A, B, E, G, I, L, N, P, S
Headline: Sidelights On Quake
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: B, H, I, P
Headline: Whose Fault Is It Anyway?
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: S
Headline: Local Quake Rated On Par With Long Beach Temblor Of A Year Ago; Not On Wasatch Fault
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: E, I, S
Headline: The Quake
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: P, S
Headline: Utah Area Again Hit By Quakes
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: A, B, E, G, P
Headline: Dry Wells Come Back With Quake
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: G
Headline: Cities Report Quake Action
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: E, B, G, I, N, P, S
Headline: Logan Damage Only To Surface Checkup Reveals
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, I, N, L
Headline: Fate Saves S.L. From Destruction Say Quake Experts
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: G, S
Headline: To Discuss Quake
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: S
Headline: Earthquakes Again Shake Northern Utah
Date: 03/15/1934
Info Categories: B, E, G, L, S
Headline: Temblor Sends Inky Black Water From Earth
Date: 03/15/1934
Info Categories: E, G
Headline: Slight Shocks Still Persist
Date: 03/17/1934
Info Categories: E, I
Headline: Cove School Held "Unsafe" After Quake
Date: 03/17/1934
Info Categories: B, R
Headline: Men Declare Schools Safe After Quake
Date: 03/22/1934
Info Categories: B
Headline: Pack Advises City Prepare For Temblors
Date: 03/22/1934
Info Categories: A, L
Headline: Geologist Plans Trip To Kosmo As Guide For Party
Date: 03/22/1934
Info Categories: A, S
Headline: Decrease In Great Salt Lake Level Held Possible Cause For Recent Earthquake Which Rocked Half Of State
Date: 03/23/1934
Info Categories: S
Headline: Quake Commission Again Advocated
Date: 03/29/1934
Info Categories: A
Headline: Rumbling Of Mountains In Millard Desert Revealed
Date: 04/03/1934
Info Categories: G, H, P, S
Headline: Another Minor Earth Tremor Felt In Salt Lake
Date: 04/07/1934
Info Categories: E
Headline: City Feels New Quake
Date: 04/14/1934
Info Categories: E, N
Headline: S. L. Hit By Severest Quake Since March 12
Date: 05/07/1934
Info Categories: E, N, S
Ogden Standard Examiner (last date searched 05/08/1934)
Headline: Earthquakes Shake Mountain Area
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: A, B, E, I, L, N, P, S
Headline: Two Buildings Rub Together In Salt Lake; Glass Broken
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: A, B, E, I, N, P, S
Headline: Quake Cracks Building On Logan Campus
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: A, B, N
Headline: Utah Probably Quake Center
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: E, S
Headline: Device Shows 'Quake Severe
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: E, S
Headline: Earthquake Stops Water Meter Clock
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: L
Headline: Roaring Sounds Continue After Earth Crust Splits In Kelton And Kosmo Area
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: E, G, N, P
Headline: Cracks Show 18-Inch Fall In Earth Surface
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: G
Headline: Quakes Leave Few Chimneys In Snowville
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: B, S
Headline: Damage To The North
Date: 03/15/1934
Info Categories: B, S
Headline: Earth Split for 8 Miles in Quake Zone North of Lake
Date: 03/16/1934
Info Categories: B, G, P, S
Headline: Logan Geologist Tells What Happened When Utah Was Shaken by Earthquakes
Date: 03/18/1934
Info Categories: G, S
Headline: Many Inspect Earth Splits at Lake Shore
Date: 03/19/1934
Info Categories: G, P
Headline: Chapel Found Badly Damaged
Date: 03/19/1934
Info Categories: A, B, G, I, P, S
Headline: Four Repairing Quake Cracks
Date: 03/20/1934
Info Categories: B, N, R
Headline: Geologist To Act As Guide
Date: 03/21/1934
Info Categories: A, G, P, S
Headline: Earlier Earthquakes
Date: 03/23/1934
Info Categories: S
Headline: Temblors Caused Great Fright in Nineties, Files of 'Brigham Bugler' Show
Date: 03/25/1934
Info Categories: E, G, I, P, S
Headline: Autos Hold More Danger Than Quakes
Date: 03/28/1934
Info Categories: A, P, S
Headline: Slight Quake Felt in Utah and Idaho
Date: 04/07/1934
Info Categories: E
Headline: Ogden Feels Quake Tremor
Date: 04/14/1934
Info Categories: E, S
Headline: Early Morning Quake Is Felt in Ogden
Date: 05/06/1934
Info Categories: E
Post-Register (Idaho Falls) (last date searched 03/14/1934)
Headline: Earth Tremors Rock South Idaho and Utah
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Northern Utah Feels Shocks
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: B, I, N, P
Headline: Tremors Tuesday Crack Walls And Topple Chimneys
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, I
Headline: Quake Splits Earth In Utah
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: E, B, G
Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 05/18/1934)
Headline: Five Shocks Shake Wide West Area
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, P, S
Headline: Experts Differ On Center Of Salt Lake Earthquake
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: S
Headline: Schools Remain Closed In City Till Wednesday
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: I
Headline: Quake Blamed For Death Of Ogden Woman
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, E, I, L, N, P
Headline: Temblor Felt At Richfield
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, P
Headline: Towns Report Varied Events In Temblors
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, S
Headline: Scientists Explain S.L. Quake Causes
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: E, S
Headline: Quake In Utah Declared Equal To 1925 Coast Shock
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: P, S
Headline: Tremor Most Severe In Local History, Pack Asserts
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: P, S
Headline: Officer Links Quake and Ale
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, P
Headline: 'Let Us Out!' Yell Inmates of Jail As Earth Quivers
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: I, P
Headline: Let's See Now, What Did They All Discuss
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: P
Headline: Weather Freed of Responsibility For Earthquake
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: S
Headline: Salt Lake Quake Recalls Warning of Noted Savant
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: S
Headline: Provo Escapes Quake Damage
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: E, N
Headline: Three Tremors Shake Preston, Nearby Towns
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: B, N
Headline: Earthquake Experience
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: A, I, S
Headline: Enormous Cracks Found In Ground At Quake Center
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: B, E, G
Headline: Schools Held Safe For All But Most Violent Quakes
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: N
Headline: Worker Injured In Cavein Caused By Temblor Dies
Date: 03/14/1934
Info Categories: P
Headline: Quake Damages But Two Schools In Cache County
Date: 03/15/1934
Info Categories: B
Headline: School News And Views
Date: 03/15/1934
Info Categories: I, P
Headline: Children Resume School After Post-Quake Holiday
Date: 03/15/1934
Info Categories: I, P
Headline: Thirty New Quakes Hit North Utah
Date: 03/16/1934
Info Categories: B, E, G, I, L, N, S
Headline: Survey Shows School Intact
Date: 03/23/1934
Info Categories: B
Headline: Record Of Early Earthquake In Recent Shock Area Found In Weather Bureau Files
Date: 03/23/1934
Info Categories: B, G
Headline: Safety Of School At Cove Certified By Commissioner
Date: 03/23/1934
Info Categories: B
Wyoming State Tribune (Cheyenne) (last date searched 03/15/1934)
Headline: Large Area Of State Jarred
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Salt Lake Quake Jars Lamps Here
Date: 03/12/1934
Info Categories: N
Headline: 2nd Quake Victim Expires Tuesday
Date: 03/13/1934
Info Categories: P
Headline: Utah Is Jarred By New Shocks
Date: 03/15/1934
Info Categories: B, E, L, N
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Description: Car straddling fault scarp; Hansel Valley, Utah
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Info Categories: G
Description: Evidence of spring rejuvenation
Source: Wilbur Smith Collection
Info Categories: G
Description: Schoolhouse at Snowville, Utah
Source: Phillip Shenon report
Info Categories: B
Description: Many visitors to earthquake site
Source: Phillip Shenon report
Info Categories: G, P
Description: Water issuing from fault-salt flats
Source: Phillip Shenon report
Info Categories: G
Description: Sand boils
Source: Special Collections Dept.; University of Utah Libraries
Info Categories: G
Description: Evidence of liquefaction
Source: Wilbur Smith Collection
Info Categories: G
Description: New springs near Monument Rock
Source: Wilbur Smith Collection
Info Categories: G
Description: Fault scarp
Source: Special Collections Dept. University of Utah Libraries
Info Categories: G
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Description: 5 year old hospital patient in Salt Lake City, Utah Author: Carroll, Geraldine Info Categories: N, P Description: 14 year old on farm in Lewiston, Cache Valley, Utah Author: Hortin, Brent W. Info Categories: E, N, P Description: Young man in Salt Lake City, Utah Author: Hust, Lloyd B. Info Categories: B, E, N, P Description: University student in Salt Lake City, Utah Author: Jacob, Dorothy E. Info Categories: P Description: 8 year old at home in Brigham City, Utah Author: Jensen, Robert Info Categories: E, L, N, P Description: University student in Salt Lake City, Utah Author: Wilcox, June Hansen Info Categories: N, P
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Title: Earthquakes in Utah
Publication: Seismicity in the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised)
Info Categories: B, G, N, P
Title: Earthquake History of Utah, 1850-1949
Publication: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1953)
Info Categories: B, E, G, N, P
Title: The Utah Earthquake of March 12, 1934
Publication: Unpublished report by Phillip Shenon, USGS geologist
Info Categories: B, E, G, L, P
Title: Effects of Six Damaging Earthquakes in SLC
Publication: Historical Earthquakes in Salt Lake City, Utah; Event and Institutional Resource
Info Categories: B, E
Title: Appendix II: Sites, Types of Buildings, Earthquake Effects and MM Intensities
Publication: Historical Earthquakes in Salt Lake City, Utah; Event and Institutional Resource
Info Categories: B, N, P
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