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Electric clocks in Salt Lake City, Utah, stopped, showing the time of the quake as 9:05 a.m.

1962 Magna, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.2




The walls of Cyprus High School in Magna, Utah, suffered plaster cracks. According to the Desert News (9/6/1962), a parapet around the top of the school was damaged and had to be removed."

1962 Magna, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.2




Custodian Harold Thomas cleans up broken jars and specimens that fell from shelves in the biology lab of Cyprus High School. Magna, Utah

1962 Magna, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.2




Ernest Colosimo, co-owner of Standard Market, Magna, Utah, cleans up bottled products which fell from shelves in the market.

1962 Magna, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.2




Click here for page 2 of the 1962 Magna, UT earthquake photographs.

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