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Name:                    Salt Lake City, UT
Local Date (Time):       Mar 06, 1949  (11:50 p.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Mar 07, 1949  (0650)
Location:                Salt Lake City, UT
Epicenter:               40 44.94   111 50.95   [1]
Magnitude:               5.0  [1]
Intensity:               VI  [1]
Felt Area:               not available
  

Significant aftershocks:     None

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  Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)(last date searched 03/12/1949)
     Headline:         S. L. Earth Tremor Breaks Water Main
     Date:             03/07/1949
     Info Categories:  E, I, L, R, S

     Headline:         Another Little Earthquake
     Date:             03/08/1949
     Info Categories:  P, S


  Magna Times(last date searched 03/25/1949)
     Headline:         No headline. First line: Did you feel the earthquake...
     Date:             03/11/1949
     Info Categories:  B


  Salt Lake Tribune(last date searched 03/12/1949)
     Headline:         Earthquakes Jar S.L., Davis Area
     Date:             03/07/1949
     Info Categories:  A, B, E, I, L, N, P, R, S

     Headline:         Queries Flood The Tribune Phone Center
     Date:             03/07/1949
     Info Categories:  I

     Headline:         Wh' Hoppen?  They Asked
     Date:             03/07/1949
     Info Categories:  A, P

     Headline:         New Earth 'Shimmies' Not Probable--Soon
     Date:             03/08/1949
     Info Categories:  E, L, N, P

     Headline:         Seismograph at USAC Takes Two Records
     Date:             03/08/1949
     Info Categories:  E

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

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

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

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