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Name:                    Pine Valley, UT     
Local Date (Time):       Nov 17, 1902 (12:50 p.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Nov 17, 1902 (1950)
Location:                ~20 mi. SE of Enterprise, UT 
Epicenter:               37 23.58  113 31.20  [1] 
Magnitude:               6+/- [6] 
Intensity:               VIII [1] 
Felt Area:               not available 
  

Significant aftershocks:     
  
Name:                    Pine Valley, UT
Local Date (Time):       Dec 05, 1902 (exact time unavailable)
GMT Date (Time):         Dec 05, 1902 (exact time unavailable)
Location:                ~20 mi. SE of Enterprise, UT 
Epicenter:               37 23.68  113 31.20  [1] 
Magnitude:               5.0  [1] 
Intensity:               VI  [1] 
Felt Area:               not available 

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  Deseret Evening News  (last date searched 12/09/1902)
      Headline:          Earthquake Shocks in Dixie
      Date:              11/19/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, N, P

      Headline:          No Eruption at Mt. Baldy
      Date:              11/19/1902
      Info Category:     G, I

      Headline:          Pinto Damaged by Earthquake
      Date:              11/19/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, N, P

      Headline:          Earthquake Gossip
      Date:              11/19/1902
      Info Category:     G, I

      Headline:          Pine Valley Seismic Disturbances
      Date:              11/20/1902
      Info Category:     B, E

      Headline:          St. George Damaged By Earthquake
      Date:              11/21/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, G, N, P

      Headline:          Pine Valley Earthquake Capers
      Date:              11/22/1902
      Info Category:     E, G, N, P

      Headline:          Bloomington More Earthquake Gossip
      Date:              11/25/1902
      Info Category:     E, G, P

      Headline:          Santa Clara Nearly Every House Injured
      Date:              11/25/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, G, I, N

      Headline:          Local Briefs
      Date:              11/25/1902
      Info Category:     G, I

      Headline:          Conditions Around Mt. Baldy
      Date:              11/28/1902
      Info Category:     G, P


  Salt Lake Herald  (last date searched 11/25/1902)
      Headline:          Earthquake Sways Big Buildings of Salt Lake
      Date:              11/18/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, G, N, P, S

      Headline:          People Are Frightened
      Date:              11/18/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, G, N

      Headline:          Mount Baldy is Active
      Date:              11/19/1902
      Info Category:     G


  Salt Lake Telegram  (last date searched 11/20/1902)
      Headline:          Earthquake Shocks City
      Date:              11/17/1902
      Info Category:     E

      Headline:          Active Volcano Reported in Beaver County in Southern Part of Utah
      Date:              11/18/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, G


  Salt Lake Tribune  (last date searched 12/11/1902)
      Headline:          St. George Shaken Up
      Date:              11/18/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, G, N, P

      Headline:          Had Some Earthquaking
      Date:              11/18/1902
      Info Category:     E

      Headline:          Salonica Has Earthquake; No Better Than the Utah Article, However
      Date:              11/19/1902
      Info Category:     E

      Headline:          Evidence of Volcano
      Date:              11/20/1902
      Info Category:     G

      Headline:          State Briefs
      Date:              11/20/1902
      Info Category:     E

      Headline:          Troubles at Parowan
      Date:              11/21/1902
      Info Category:     E, N

      Headline:          Utah Peak Flashes Fire
      Date:              11/24/1902
      Info Category:     G

      Headline:          Matters In Piute
      Date:              11/24/1902
      Info Category:     E

      Headline:          Earthquake Shocks in Wayne
      Date:              11/24/1902
      Info Category:     E

      Headline:          Latest on the Volcano
      Date:              11/25/1902
      Info Category:     G, I

      Headline:          No Earthquake in Four Days
      Date:              12/05/1902
      Info Category:     E

      Headline:          A Shocking Time
      Date:              12/06/1902
      Info Category:     B, E, I, P

      Headline:          (no headline)
      Date:              12/07/1902
      Info Category:     E

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     Description:       Excerpt from family history: born in Gunlock, Utah on day of earthquake.
     Author:            Bracken, Erma Bowler
     Info Categories:   P

     Description:       Letter from woman in Pine Valley to brother in Scotland
     Author:            Bracken, Janet
     Info Categories:   B, E, P

     Description:       Journal entry of postmaster at Hebron, Utah
     Author:            Huntsman, Orson W.
     Info Categories:   B, E, G, I, N, P

     Description:       Excerpt from a town history (Enterprise, Utah)
     Author:            "Enterprise",
     Info Categories:   E, I, N, P

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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:   B, E, G

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

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