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SUMMARY OF CEDAR CITY 1942 EARTHQUAKE

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Name:                    Cedar City, UT 
Local Date (Time):       Sep 26, 1942  (7:50 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Sep 26, 1942  (1450)
Location:                Cedar City, UT
Epicenter:               37 40.97   113 03.95   [1]
Magnitude:               5.0  [1]
Intensity:               VI  [1]
Felt Area:               <1,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]

  

Significant aftershocks:     None
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Newspaper Accounts

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 Deseret News (last date searched 09/30/1942)
             No articles found.


 Iron County Record (last date searched 10/15/1942)
             No articles found.


 Ogden Standard Examiner (last date searched 09/29/1942)
             No articles found.


 Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 10/01/1942)
     Headline:        Quake Shakes Cedar City and Vicinity
     Date:            09/27/1942
     Info Categories: B, E, N, P, S

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Photographs Available 
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Individual Accounts Available 

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Additional Sources of Information Available 

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

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