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SUMMARY OF FLATHEAD LAKE 1945 EARTHQUAKE

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Name:                    Flathead Lake, MT
Local Date (Time):       Sep 23, 1945  (2:57 a.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Sep 23, 1945  (0957)
Location:                near Lakeside, MT
Epicenter:               48 00.00   114 12.00   [6]
Magnitude:               5.5  [6]
Intensity:               VI  [7]
Felt Area:               95,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]

Significant aftershocks: None

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  Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, MT)(last date searched  09/27/1945)
     Headline:         Northwest States Shaken By Quake
     Date:             09/24/1945
     Info Categories:  E, P

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Additional Sources of Information Available
      
     Title:               Earthquakes in Montana
     Publication:         Seismicity in the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised)
     Info Categories:     N
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