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Name:                    Virginia City, MT
Local Date (Time):       Nov 23, 1947  (2:46 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Nov 23, 1947  (0946)
Location:                ~ 25 mi. WNW of West Yellowstone, MT
Epicenter:               44 55.20   111 31.80   [6]
Magnitude:               6 1/4  [6]
Intensity:               VIII  [7]
Felt Area:               340,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]
  

Significant aftershocks:     None

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  Daily Missoulian(last date searched 11/24/1947)
     Headline:        Mild 'Quake Shakes State
     Date:            11/24/1947
     Info Categories: E, N

     Headline:        Major Quake Recorded In Denver
     Date:            11/24/1947
     Info Categories: E

     Headline:        No Damage Reported In Missoula
     Date:            11/24/1947
     Info Categories: E, N, P


  Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise)(last date searched 11/28/1947)
     Headline:        Quake Jars Montanans
     Date:            11/24/1947
     Info Categories: A, E, N, P

     Headline:        Eastern Idaho Feels Tremor
     Date:            11/24/1947
     Info Categories: E


  Madisonian (Virginia City, MT)(last date searched 12/26/1947)
     Headline:        Morning Quake Roused Citizens 
     Date:            11/28/1947
     Info Categories: B, E, N

     Headline:        Check On Earthquake
     Date:            12/05/1947
     Info Categories: I

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     Title:               Earthquakes in Montana
     Publication:         Seismicity in the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised)
     Info Categories:     B, G

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