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SUMMARY OF DRANEY PEAK 1994 EARTHQUAKE

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Name:                    Draney Peak, ID
Local Date (Time):       Feb 03, 1994  (2:05 a.m)
GMT Date (Time):         Feb 03, 1994  (0905)
Location:                ~ 10 mi. W of Afton, WY
Epicenter:               42 44.42   111 08.93   [2]
Magnitude:               5.9  [2]
Intensity:               VII  [8]
Felt Area:               130,000 Sq. Kilometers [9]

Significant aftershocks: None

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Newspaper Accounts

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  Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID) (last date searched 02/03/1994)
     Headline:         Earthquakes Rattle Afton Area
     Date:             02/03/1994
     Info Categories:  E, N, P


  Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT) (last date searched 02/12/1994)
     Headline:         Temblor Rocks And Rolls Through Utah's Geology
     Date:             02/04/1994
     Info Categories:  E, N, P, S

     Headline:         Thursday's Quake Leaves More Aftershocks Than Usual In Its Wake
     Date:             02/05/1994
     Info Categories:  B, E, N, S

     Headline:         More Hefty Aftershocks Hit Idaho, Wyoming
     Date:             02/08/1994
     Info Categories:  E, P

     Headline:         Biggest Aftershock Reminds Utahns: It's Quake Country
     Date:             02/12/1994
     Info Categories:  B, E, N, P


  Star Valley Independent (Afton, WY) (last date searched  05/05/1994)
     Headline:         Over 140 Quakes Tremble Through Star Valley
     Date:             02/10/1994
     Info Categories:  E, S

     Headline:         Earthquakes Leave Valley With Limited Damage
     Date:             02/10/1994
     Info Categories:  A, B, E, G

     Headline:         U of U Searches For Fault In Draney Peak Epicenter Area
     Date:             02/10/1994
     Info Categories:  E, G, S

     Headline:         Earthquake Felt Strongly In Tygee And Crow Creek
     Date:             02/10/1994
     Info Categories:  B, L, N, P

     Headline:         Media Converge On Star Valley
     Date:             02/10/1994
     Info Categories:  I

     Headline:         Local Earthquake Activity Is Declining This Week
     Date:             02/10/1994
     Info Categories:  E, S

     Headline:         U of U Seismologist Fields Star Valley's Earthquake Questions
     Date:             02/17/1994
     Info Categories:  A, S

     Headline:         Earthquake Summary For Feb. 10-16
     Date:             02/17/1994
     Info Categories:  A, B, E

     Headline:         Geological Survey Releases Updated April Earthquake Report
     Date:             05/05/1994
     Info Categories:  E


  Wyoming State Tribune (Cheyenne, WY)(last date searched 02/20/1994)
     Headline:         Afton Shaken By Quakes
     Date:             02/03/1994
     Info Categories:  A, E, L, N, P

     Headline:         Earthquakes Behaving Unusually: Smith
     Date:             02/04/1994
     Info Categories:  B, E, S

     Headline:         Callers Jam 911 Lines
     Date:             02/04/1994
     Info Categories:  A, P

     Headline:         Aftershock Strikes Border Area Again
     Date:             02/07/1994
     Info Categories:  E, P

     Headline:         4.5 Aftershocks Hits Idaho-Wyoming Border
     Date:             02/10/1994
     Info Categories:  E

     Headline:         Aftershock of 5.6 Hits Idaho-Wyoming Border
     Date:             02/11/1994
     Info Categories:  B, E, N, P

     Headline:         Afton's On Edge With Aftershock
     Date:             02/12/1994
     Info Categories:  B, E, I, P


  Wyoming Tribune Eagle (Cheyenne, WY)(last date searched 02/05/1994)
     Headline:         Worse Quakes Yet To Come, Official Says
     Date:             02/05/1994
     Info Categories:  A, B, E, P, S

     Headline:         Breakdown On The Wyoming Quakes
     Date:             02/05/1994
     Info Categories:  E

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Photographs Available

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     Description:     Isoseismal Map of earthquake area
     Source:          Utah Geological Survey
     Info Categories: E, N

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Individual Accounts Available

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     Description:      Man and his elderly father on ranch in Idaho near epicenter
     Author:           Kennington, Don
     Info Categories:  E, N, P, R

     Description:      Mother feeding baby in Salt Lake City, Utah
     Author:           Davis, Janene K.
     Info Categories:  E, P

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Additional Sources of Information Available

      
     Title:               The February 3, 1994 Draney Peak, Idaho Earthquake
     Publication:         Utah Geological Survey Notes, Vol.26, No. 2,3, p.18-19
     Info Categories:     E, G

     Title:               Structural Damage, Ground Failure, and Hydrologic Effects of the Magnitude (Mw) 5.9 Draney Peak, Idaho, Earthquake of February 3, 1994
     Publication:         Seismological Research Letters, Vol.67, No.3; p.20-29
     Info Categories:     B, E, G, S

     Title:               The Draney Peak Earthquake Sequence Southeastern Caribou County, Idaho January 30-April 12, 1994
     Publication:         Idaho Geological Survey Staff Report 94-2; April 1994
     Info Categories:     B, E, P
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