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SUMMARY OF BEAR LAKE 1884 EARTHQUAKE

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Name:                    Bear Lake, ID
Local Date (Time):       Nov 10, 1884  (1:50 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Nov 10, 1884  (0850)
Location:                ~10 mi. SE of Saint Charles, ID
Epicenter:               42 00.00   111 16.00   [1]
Magnitude:               6.3  [1]
Intensity:               VIII  [1]
Felt Area:               15,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]

Significant aftershocks: None

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  Deseret Evening News  (last date searched 11/17/1884)
      Headline:           Did You feel the Earthquake 
      Date:               11/10/1884
      Info. Categories:   E

      Headline:           Paris Points
      Date:               11/13/1884
      Info. Categories:   E, P, N

      Headline:           Evening News
      Date:               11/15/1884
      Info. Categories:   E


  Idaho Statesman  (last date searched 11/18/1884)
                No articles found.


  Ogden Daily Herald  (last date searched 11/17/1884)
      Headline:           Earthquake
      Date:               11/10/1884
      Info. Categories:   E, P

      Headline:           Brigham Bits...Shock of Earthquake
      Date:               11/11/1884
      Info. Categories:   E, P, N


   Salt Lake Daily Herald  (last date searched 11/18/1884) 
      Headline:           The Earthquake
      Date:               11/11/1884
      Info. Categories:   B, E, L, P

      Headline:           Ogden Flashes
      Date:               11/11/1884
      Info. Categories:   H, P


  Salt Lake Daily Tribune   (last date searched 11/16/1884)
      Headline:           The Earthquake
      Date:               11/11/1884
      Info. Categories:   E

      Headline:           Earthquake in Bear Lake Valley
      Date:               11/13/1884
      Info. Categories:   E, N, H

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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
     Info. Categories:  E, N, P

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