Earthquake Scenario Aimed at Promoting Preparedness

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Northern Utah is due for a major earthquake. Seismologists can’t predict exactly when the Big One might happen, but they have been looking at the hazards Utah is likely to face.

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Lower Red Pine Lake occupies part of a cirque basin below White Baldy (11,321 feet). Pleistocene glaciers carved the Tertiary-age granitic bedrock of the Little Cottonwood Stock into a variety of alpine landforms including cirques, arêtes, and horns. Little Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Range, Salt Lake County, Utah. Photographer: Taylor Boden; © 2015POTD February 23, 2016: Little Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Range, Salt Lake County, Utah
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