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Name:                    Provo, UT     
Local Date (Time):       Jul 15, 1915  (3:00 p.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Jul 15, 1915  (2200)
Location:                Provo, UT
Epicenter:               40 14.35   111 39.33   [1]
Magnitude:               5.0  [1]
Intensity:               VI  [1]
Felt Area:               13,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]
  

Significant aftershocks:   None

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 Deseret Evening News (last date searched 07/20/1915)
      Headline:         Utah County Shaken By Earthquake; Slight Damage
      Date:             07/16/1915
      Info Categories:  B, G, P

      Headline:         Earthquake Shakes Up Town Buildings
      Date:             07/15/1915
      Info Categories:  E, N, P


 Salt Lake Herald Republican  (last date searched 07/20/1915)
      Headline:         Quake Sways Houses
      Date:             07/16/1915
      Info Categories:  B, E, G, N, P

      Headline:         City Gently Rocked By Earthquake
      Date:             07/16/1915
      Info Categories:  E, N, P, S


 Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 07/20/1915)
      Headline:         Earthquake Shock Is Recorded Here
      Date:             07/16/1915
      Info Categories:  E, P


 The Provo Post (last date searched 07/27/1915)
      Headline:         Earthquake Struck Provo Drove People To Streets
      Date:             07/16/1915
      Info Categories:  B, E, G, N, S, P

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

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

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