SUMMARY OF 1943 MAGNA, UT EARTHQUAKE

! SUMMARY OF 1943 MAGNA, UT EARTHQUAKE

SUMMARY OF MAGNA 1943 EARTHQUAKE

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Name:                    Magna, UT
Local Date (Time):       Feb 22, 1943  (8:20 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Feb 22, 1943  (1420)
Location:                Magna, UT
Epicenter:               40 42.00   112 04.80   [1]
Magnitude:               5.0  [1]
Intensity:               VI  [1]
Felt Area:               26,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]
  

Significant aftershocks:     None

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Newspaper Accounts

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 Deseret Evening News (last date searched 03/05/1943)
     Headline:        Utah, Mexico Rocked By Separate Quakes
     Date:            02/22/1943
     Info Categories: E, N

     Headline:        Little Danger Seen From Utah Earthquakes
     Date:            02/22/1943
     Info Categories: P, S

     Headline:        Quake Widens Leaks In Roof, City Board Hears
     Date:            02/24/1943
     Info Categories: B

     Headline:        Quake, Rationing, Highlight Past Week
     Date:            02/27/1943
     Info Categories: B, P


 Magna Times (last date searched 03/12/1943)
     Headline:        Earthquake Brings Fears To Residents
     Date:            02/26/1943
     Info Categories: E, P


 Ogden Standard Examiner (last date searched 02/27/1943)
     Headline:        Mild Quake Jars Utah In Early Morn; Mexico City Shaken For Five Minutes; Volcano Erupts
     Date:            02/22/1943
     Info Categories: E, N

     Headline:        Utah Expert Allays S.L. 'Quake Fears
     Date:            02/23/1943
     Info Categories: E, S


 Salt Lake Telegram (last date searched 03/03/1943)
     Headline:        First Tremor Since 1934 Hits S.L. Area
     Date:            02/22/1943
     Info Categories: E, N, S

     Headline:        Wasatch Fault Behaves During Quake
     Date:            02/23/1943
     Info Categories: S

     Headline:        Engineers Report Quake Damage
     Date:            02/25/1943
     Info Categories: B


 Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 03/01/1943)
     Headline:        'U' Geologist Allays S.L. Quake Fears
     Date:            02/23/1943
     Info Categories: E, S

     Headline:        Quakes Start Roof Leaks
     Date:            02/25/1943
     Info Categories: B

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Photographs 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:  S 

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

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

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

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