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Name:                    Big Fork, MT
Local Date (Time):       Mar 31, 1952  (5:37 p.m.)
GMT Date (Time):         Apr 01, 1952  (0037)
Location:                ~ 15 mi. E of Big Fork, MT
Epicenter:               48 00.00   113 48.00   [6]
Magnitude:               5.5  [6]
Intensity:               VII  [7]
Felt Area:               77,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]
  

Significant aftershocks:     None

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Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, MT) (last date searched 04/02/1952)
     Headline:        Moderate Quake Shakes Valley
     Date:            04/01/1952
     Info Categories: E, N, S

     Headline:        Delicate Seismometer At H-H Dam Tells Story of Earthquake
     Date:            04/02/1952
     Info Categories: E, S


 Idaho Statesman (Boise) (last date searched 04/04/1952)
            No articles found


 Missoulian (last date searched 04/04/1952)
            No articles found

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

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