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SUMMARY OF CACHE VALLEY 1962 EARTHQUAKE
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Name: Cache Valley, UT Local Date (Time): Aug 30, 1962 (6:35 a.m.) GMT Date (Time): Aug 30, 1962 (1335) Location: Utah-Idaho border N of Richmond, UT Epicenter: 41 55.20 111 37.80 [6] Magnitude: 5.7 [6] Intensity: VII [7] Felt Area: 170,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]Numbers in brackets indicate source of information. See Reference ListSignificant aftershocks: None
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) (last date searched 09/10/1962)
Headline: Sharp Quake Rocks Northern Utah
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: A, B, E, G, L, N, P
Headline: Utahns Jolted By Earth Shock
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: E, N, P
Headline: Damage Toll High In Logan Area
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: B, E, G, I, L, N, P
Headline: Temblor's Jolt Knocks U. Seismograph 'Off the Record'
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: Beehive State Ranks High in Frequency of Quakes
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: No Tremor Felt at Yellowstone
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: Cache Valley Mops Up Costly Quake Damages
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: A, B, G, I, L, P, S
Headline: 1934 Temblor Remains Worst on Utah Record
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: What's Haven From Quake?
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: A
Headline: Cache Near Normal In Quake Cleanup
Date: 09/01/1962
Info Categories: A, G, I, R
Headline: Disaster Loans Okayed For Cache Residents
Date: 09/01/1962
Info Categories: A, I
Headline: Quake Loss Minor at USU Campus
Date: 09/01/1962
Info Categories: B, R
Headline: Cache Still Checking Quake Damage Toll
Date: 09/03/1962
Info Categories: B, I
Herald Journal (Logan, UT) (last date searched 09/21/1962)
Headline: Quake Spawned By East Cache Fault Rocks Area; Damage High
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: B, I, L, N, P
Headline: Fallen Plaster...Cracks And Bricks
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: A, B, G, I, L, N, P
Headline: 'Follow-up' Note Causes Concern
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: A, B, E, I, P, S
Headline: A Newspaper Office As A Quake Hits
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: A, B, I, P
Headline: About Town
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: I
Headline: Crawlers Shaken, Too
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: H, I
Headline: Observations And Comments Following Today's Earthquake
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: B, H, N, P
Headline: Condemns Historic Richmond Tabernacle
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: B, E, I, S
Headline: Schools Assess Temblor Damage
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: A, B, I, P, R
Headline: USU Surveys Bring Out Quake Damage
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: B
Headline: Red Cross Disaster Offices Set Up In Richmond, Logan
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: A
Headline: Six Calves Since The Quake
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: H, I
Headline: Some Citizens Give Reaction To The Quake
Date: 09/02/1962
Info Categories: A, B, H, I, P
Headline: U.S. Small Business Agency Labels Cache Disaster Area
Date: 09/02/1962
Info Categories: A
Headline: City Engineer Reports On Quake Probes
Date: 09/04/1962
Info Categories: B, I
Headline: Repairs To Make School Safer Than Before Quake
Date: 09/04/1962
Info Categories: B, R
Headline: Quake Lasts 35 Seconds; East-West Motion .13g
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: Red Cross Aids Victims Of Cache Quake
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: A
Headline: Church Building Committeemen Give Verdict On Logan Chapel
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: I, R
Headline: USU Geologist Requests Cache Earthquake Data
Date: 09/07/1962
Info Categories: R, S
Headline: Logan Junior High Will Reopen Monday Morning
Date: 09/07/1962
Info Categories: R
Headline: Red Cross Disaster Advisory Committee
Date: 09/09/1962
Info Categories: A, B, R
Headline: In Your Rebuilding --
Date: 09/09/1962
Info Categories: A
Headline: Aftershock Is Recorded Sunday Morn
Date: 09/10/1962
Info Categories: B, E, G
Headline: County Schools Assess Quake Damage
Date: 09/12/1962
Info Categories: A, B, P
Ogden Standard Examiner (last date searched 09/10/1962)
Headline: Quake Rocks Area, Centers Near Logan
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: A, B, E, I, L, P
Headline: Last Tremor For Ogden Came In 1934
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: New Tremor To Follow, Expert Says
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: S
Headline: Logan, Provo Firms Jolted By Earthquake
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: B, I, N
Headline: Quake Effect In Ogden? 'The Jitters'
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: B, E, G, I, N, P
Headline: Ceiling Falls On Bed, But Girl, 18, Safe
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: B, P
Headline: Quake Potential High In Utah, Experts Reveal
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: S
Headline: Takes A Quake To Wake Boy, 17, In Salt Lake
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: H, P
Headline: Nightcrawlers Upset, Too!
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: H
Headline: Earthquake Sidelights -- Birthday Party--For Me?
Date: 08/30/1962
Info Categories: E, G, H, P
Headline: Apprehension Clings To State In Wake Of Area Earthquake
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: B, I, P
Headline: The Bride-To-Be Was Shaken
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: B, E, N, P
Headline: Cache Area To Receive Disaster Aid
Date: 09/02/1962
Info Categories: A, G, I, R
Headline: Cache County Weighing Quake Loss
Date: 09/03/1962
Info Categories: B, I
Salt Lake Tribune (last date searched 09/06/1962)
Headline: Quake Rocks Northern Utah
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: E, S
Headline: 6 West States Feel Tremor
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: B, E, G, I, L, N, P
Headline: Store Opens By A Crack
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: A, I
Headline: Large Blast? Hundreds Thought So
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: P
Headline: Temple Ruin Listed Slight
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: B, R
Headline: Jolts Silence Logan City School Bells
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: B, I
Headline: Quake Wake Rumbles In South Idaho
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: H, N, P
Headline: S.L. Water Lines Escape Quake
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: L
Headline: Jar Marks Birthday
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: H, P
Headline: Next Quake? It's Really Anybody's Guess
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: E, H, I, N, P
Headline: Quake 'One Of Worst' For Utah
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: Shock In Richmond Shatters 30 Years
Date: 08/31/1962
Info Categories: B, E, P
Headline: Fear Of New Quake Haunts Cache Crews
Date: 09/01/1962
Info Categories: A, B, G, I, R
Headline: Cache Areas Open For SBA Loans
Date: 09/01/1962
Info Categories: A
Headline: Quake Area Jitters Easing As Crews Speed Repairs
Date: 09/02/1962
Info Categories: A, R
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Description: Strong-motion accelerogram; recorded at Utah State University in Logan, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: S
Description: Bricks from drugstore wall fell through roof of City Cafe. Lewiston, UT.
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: B
Description: Inside City Cafe. Lewiston, UT
Source: Salt Lake Tribune Library
Info Categories: B
Description: Toppled headstones in Richmond Cemetery. Richmond, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: N
Description: New spring on Logan-Cache Airport property. Logan, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: G, L
Description: Logan Printing Co. bricks litter alley. Logan, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: B
Description: Brick veneer damage to apartment. Logan, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: B
Description: North Cache High School. Richmond, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: B, R
Description: Logan Junior High's new brick parapet. Logan, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: B, R
Description: Repairing buildings on Main Street. Logan, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: B, R
Description: Fallen carport. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel Benson, Richmond, UT
Info Categories: B, L
Description: Roy Murray home with collapsed wall. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel D. Benson, Richmond, Ut
Info Categories: B
Description: Falling bricks just missed girl in bed. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel D. Benson, Richmond, UT
Info Categories: B, P
Description: Bedroom damage in Harold Miller home. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel D. Benson, Richmond, UT
Info Categories: B
Description: Porch columns cracked and tilted. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel Benson, Richmond, UT
Info Categories: B
Description: Home with brick wall partially collapsed. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel Benson, Richmond, UT
Info Categories: B
Description: Inside Benson Stake Tabernacle. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel Benson, Richmond, UT
Info Categories: B
Description: Before the Quake: Benson Stake Tabernacle. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel Benson, Richmond, UT
Info Categories: B
Description: After Quake: Demolition of Benson Stake Tabernacle. Richmond, UT
Source: Ariel Benson, Richmond, UT
Info Categories: B, I
Description: Charles Burbank home with cracked walls & fallen porch. Richmond, UT
Source: Ogden Standard Examiner
Info Categories: B
Description: Plaster on desks in North Cache High School. Richmond, UT
Source: Ogden Standard Examiner
Info Categories: N
Description: Grocery store aisle. Cache Valley, UT
Source: Utah State University Special Collections & Archives (Logan, UT)
Info Categories: N
Description: Inside Model Billiards. Logan, UT
Source: Utah State University Special Collections & Archives (Logan, UT)
Info Categories: B
Description: Broken plate glass display window; Keith O'Brien Department Store.
Source: Utah State University Special Collections & Archives (Logan, UT)
Info Categories: N
Description: Debris on piano in local church. Logan, UT
Source: Utah State University Special Collections & Archives (Logan, UT)
Info Categories: N
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Description: Young man awakened by quake in River Heights, UT
Author: Alldredge, Clifford I.
Info Categories: B, E, N
Description: Junior high school student at home in Logan, UT
Author: Sanders, Craig
Info Categories: B, E, N
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Title: Earthquakes in Utah
Publication: Seismicity in the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised)
Info Categories: B, G
Title: United States Earthquakes 1962
Publication: United States Earthquakes 1962
Info Categories: B, E, G, N, P
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