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Name:                    Central Idaho     
Local Date (Time):       Feb 13, 1945 (8:01 p.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Feb 14, 1945 (0301)
Location:                ~ 25 mi. WNW of Custer, ID 
Epicenter:               44 36.42 115 05.22 [6] 
Magnitude:               6.0 [6] 
Intensity:               VI [7] 
Felt Area:               128,000 Sq. Kilometers [7] 
  

Significant aftershocks:     None

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  Daily Bulletin (Blackfoot, ID) (last date searched 02/17/1945)
           No Articles Found 


  Daily Idahonian (Moscow, ID) (last date searched 02/20/1945)
      Headline:        Quake Felt In This Area
      Date:            02/14/1945
      Info Categories: E, N, P

      Headline:        Many Felt Quake Here
      Date:            02/15/1945
      Info Categories: E, P


  Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, ID) (last date searched 02/19/1945)
      Headline:        Earth Tremors Rock Boise And Vicinity
      Date:            02/14/1945
      Info Categories: E, P

      Headline:        Felt At Lewiston
      Date:            02/14/1945
      Info Categories: H

      Headline:        Maybe It Was Stalin
      Date:            02/17/1945
      Info Categories: H


  Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 02/17/1945)
           No Articles Found 

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

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