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Name:                    Cedar City, UT 
Local Date (Time):       Aug 30, 1942  (3:08 p.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Aug 30, 1942  (2208)
Location:                Cedar City, UT
Epicenter:               37 40.97   113 03.95   [1]
Magnitude:               5.0  [1]
Intensity:               VI  [1]
Felt Area:               <1,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]
  

Significant aftershocks:     None

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 Deseret News (last date searched 09/03/1942)
             No articles found.


 Iron County Record (last date searched 09/17/1942)
             No articles found.


 Ogden Standard Examiner (last date searched 09/04/1942)
     Headline:        Cedar City Has Light Tremor
     Date:            08/31/1942
     Info Categories: B, E


 Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 09/04/1942)
     Headline:        Minor Quake Jars Houses in Cedar City
     Date:            08/31/1942
     Info Categories: B, E, P

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

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

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