deseretnews.com
When you commit a crime, it’s not usually a good idea to put your signature on your work. But that’s what happened in an incident that has triggered an investigation by the U.S. Forest Service.
fox13now.com
A landslide in a Riverton neighborhood Thursday afternoon left a 30-foot wide, and 40-foot tall hole on a hillside between two homes.
smithsonianmag.com
The world’s worst mass extinction has been a great whodunit for decades. Some 252 million years ago, 75 percent of land species and 90 percent of those in the oceans disappeared. But what caused trilobites, Eurypterid “sea scorpions” and all those other species to go extinct?
People hiking in Provo Canyon were narrowly missed by a rockfall Monday morning. Very fortunately, no one was seriously injured.
ksl.com
A large rock slide took place in Provo Canyon Monday, narrowly missing several bystanders and leaving rubble across a popular trail.
We hope you all had an enjoyable and safe long Labor Day weekend! Here’s a little story for the Tuesday morning catchup. A research team, including some of our UGS geologists, are studying a portion of the Taylorsville-West Valley City Fault to gain a better sense of past earthquakes on the fault. Read more!
fox13now.com
A research team is digging up a portion of the Taylorsville-West Valley City Fault out by the Salt Lake City International Airport, and their goal is to get a better sense of the danger from that fault and how big of an earthquake it could create.
deseretnews.com
A section of Jones Hole Creek that remained closed after a 2013 rock slide has reopened to the public.
sltrib.com
Another major land speed event at the Bonneville Salt Flats has been canceled, putting the entire 2015 season in doubt.
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