SUMMARY OF MAGNA 1962 EARTHQUAKE
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Name: Magna, UT Local Date (Time): Sep 05, 1962 (9:04 a.m.) GMT Date (Time): Sep 05, 1962 (1604) Location: Magna, UT Epicenter: 40 42.92 112 05.33 [1] Magnitude: 5.2 [1] Intensity: VI [7] Felt Area: 42,000 Sq. Kilometers [7]Numbers in brackets indicate source of information. See Reference List Click here for an explanation of Local/GMT Date, Epicenter/Location, Intensity, Felt Area, Foreshock/Aftershock. Go to Top of page. Go directly to Newspaper Articles, Photographs, Individual Accounts, or Additional Sources of Information listings for this earthquake. Return to Personalizing the Earthquake Threat. Return to Earthquake Data Table. Newspaper Accounts
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)(last date searched 09/11/1962)
Headline: Sharp Quake Rocks S.L. Valley
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: B, E, I, L, N, P
Headline: Latest Temblor No Aftermath, U Expert Says
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: E, P, S
Headline: S.L. Reaction Varies on Quake Shock
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: B, E, L, N, P
Headline: Don't Spread Rumors In Quakes, Police Urge
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: A, I, P
Headline: Many Earthquakes Hit Utah Over the Years
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: E, P
Headline: Damage Minor In Downtown S.L.
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: B, N
Headline: Quake Seemed Stronger--It Was in S.L.
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: Quake Shakes Cuckoo Loose
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: H, P
Headline: S.L. Valley Cleans Up After Quake
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: A, B, E, I, L, N, P, R, S
Headline: House Still Shaking? It's Your Imagination
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: E, P
Headline: What To Do In A Quake? Find Protection Inside
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: A
Headline: Agency Studies Quake Effects
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: A, R
Headline: Richter Scale Applied to Utah Quakes
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: E, S
Headline: S.L. Returns To Normal After Tremor
Date: 09/07/196
Info Categories: B, E, I, P, R
Herald Journal (Logan, UT) (last date searched 09/10/1962)
Headline: Salt Lake Valley Has Quake Scare
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: B, E, I, L, N, P, S
Headline: Cache Scientists Aid In Locating SL Quake Center
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: B, E, N, S
Headline: Safest Place In A Quake
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: B, E, N, S
Magna Times(last date searched 09/27/1962)
Headline: Earthquake
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: E, N
Headline: Magna Area Suffers Damage From Quake
Date: 09/13/1962
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, P, S
Headline: Cyprus Capers
Date: 09/13/1962
Info Categories: A, E, H, P
Ogden Standard-Examiner(last date searched 09/11/1962)
Headline: S.L. Valley Shaken By Quake; Wide Area Damaged Slightly
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, P, S
Headline: Jolt Revives Cuckoo Clock
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: H, I
Headline: Temblor Rattles Ogden; No Reports Of Damage
Date: 09/05/1962
Info Categories: E, I, P
Headline: S.L. Jolt Linked To Cache Quake
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: B, E, I, N, P, S
Headline: More 'Quakes Lately? No, Says Seismologist
Date: 09/07/1962
Info Categories: E, S
Salt Lake Tribune(last date searched 09/13/1962)
Headline: Sharp Quake Cracks Homes, Schools Across S.L. Valley
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: B, E, I, L, N, P
Headline: Quake Center At Magna
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: E, S
Headline: Area Utilities Normal In 'Shock' Belt
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: B, E, L, P
Headline: Quakes Still Jolt Imaginations
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: P, S
Headline: Quake Tips: It's Debris That Hurts
Date: 09/06/196
Info Categories: A
Headline: Richter Scale -- What Is It?
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: E, S
Headline: It's Cracking Good Yarn
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: B, H
Headline: Cathedral Untouched
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: B
Headline: Quake Perfumes Plumbing Job At Liquor Store
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: B, H, P
Headline: Quake Smashes 'Time Barrier'
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: H, I
Headline: Quake Jitters Stir Cache
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: A, E, I, P, S
Headline: Temblor Jiggles Weber County
Date: 09/06/1962
Info Categories: E
Headline: Light Shocks Shown On U.'s Gauges
Date: 09/07/1962
Info Categories: A, B, E, L, R
Headline: Index To Earthquakes: File Under P, S, L and T
Date: 09/09/1962
Info Categories: S
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Description: Clock stopped at 9:05 a.m. Salt Lake City, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: N
Description: Inside wall cracks, Cyprus High School. Magna, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: B
Description: Biology Lab, Cyprus High School. Magna, UT
Source: Salt Lake Tribune Library
Info Categories: N
Description: Clean-up at Colosimos' Standard Market. Magna, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: N, R
Description: Clean-up at Grand American Market. Salt Lake City, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: N
Description: Fallen brick and resulting ceiling damage. Salt Lake City, UT
Source: Utah State Historical Society
Info Categories: B, N, P
Description: South High School students and staff evacuate building. Salt Lake City, UT
Source: Utah State Historical Society
Info Categories: I, P
Description: Filing cabinets thrown open & tilted. Salt Lake City, UT
Source: Utah State Historical Society
Info Categories: N
Description: Ceiling damage and fallen bricks in home. Salt Lake City, UT
Source: Utah State Historical Society
Info Categories: B, P
Description: Mother, 2 children in damaged bedroom. Salt Lake City, UT
Source: Utah State Historical Society
Info Categories: B, P
Description: Woman amidst quake debris in bedroom. Salt Lake City, UT
Source: Utah State Historical Society
Info Categories: B, P
Description: Repairing gas pipe leak. West Point, UT
Source: Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Info Categories: L, R
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Description: Student in junior high school gym class in Salt Lake City
Author: Anderson, Alllyson
Info Categories: E, N, P
Description: Mother and young son at home in Tooele, UT
Author: Dale, Alice
Info Categories: E, P
Description: Young secretary on fourth floor of Salt Lake City office building
Author: Hickman, Colleen H.
Info Categories: E, P
Description: Man on balcony in Cottonwood Mall, Holladay, UT
Author: Payne, Robert M.
Info Categories: E, N
Description: Husband and wife on farm in Draper, UT
Author: Smith, Barbara
Info Categories: E, N, P
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Title: Earthquakes in Utah
Publication: Seismicity in the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised)
Info Categories: B, N
Title: Effects of Six Damaging Earthquakes in SLC
Publication: Historical Earthquakes in Salt Lake City, Utah; Event and Institutional Response
Info Categories: B, E, N
Title: Appendix II: Sites, Types of Buildings, Earthquake Effects and MM Intensities
Publication: Historical Earthquakes in Salt Lake City, Utah; Event and Institutional Response
Info Categories: B, E, N, P
Title: United States Earthquakes 1962
Publication: United States Earthquakes 1962
Info Categories: B, E, N, P
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