Did anyone feel the minor jolt in southern Utah on Saturday? Read further for more details on the minor event.
deseretnews.com
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake shook the earth beneath a few small towns in southern Utah Saturday.
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Maybe some of you have seen the new movie “San Andreas.” So what could we expect to happen in the event of a giant earthquake on the San Andreas Fault? Read more in this article to find out.
smithsonianmag.com
A giant earthquake will strike California this summer. Skyscrapers will topple, the Hoover Dam will crumble and a massive tsunami will wash across the Golden Gate Bridge. Or at least, that’s the scenario that will play out on the big screen in San Andreas.
Like California, Utah is also earthquake country. One of the best forms of preparation is educating yourself and your family on what to do in the event of an earthquake. For more information on what you can do, see Putting Down Roots, or visit www.bereadyutah.gov.
deseretnews.com
Drop, cover and hold on. More than 700,000 Utahns will be participating in a statewide earthquake drill Thursday for the annual Great Utah ShakeOut, an initiative to help people and organizations practice how to protect themselves in the event of a major earthquake.
deseretnews.com
It’s 2 a.m. on an April Thursday. Along the Wasatch Front, most of the more than 2 million Utahns who live here are sleeping, at home in suburban homes or aging apartments, even as thousands of others are working graveyard shifts in hospitals or other businesses.
usgs.gov
A team of scientists from the USGS Geological Hazards Science Center, led by Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow Scott Bennett and Research Geologists Ryan Gold, Richard Briggs, Christopher DuRoss, and Stephen Personius are collaborating with scientists at the Utah Geological Survey to gather data from new paleoseismic trenches along the Wasatch fault zone. These new datasets will help researchers to understand if past surface-rupturing earthquakes have spanned fault segment boundaries. They are also analyzing new high-resolution airborne LiDAR topographic data to characterize previously unmapped fault traces and to measure how vertical displacements (vertical offset of the ground surface from faulting) vary, both in space (from north to south) and time (the last 20,000 years).
livescience.com
A continent-sized scan of North America is giving researchers the sharpest view yet of mysterious geological structures underneath the United States.
dailyutahchronicle.com
The U will hold an earthquake drill on Wednesday to test the campus alert system.
www.good4utah.com
Emergency preparedness is ingrained in the Utah culture. A recent study found that 78-percent of families have a 72 hour emergency kit. While we may be more prepared than other places…our population is expected to grow by 2.5 million in the next 35 years.
www.heraldextra.com
Consider the hypothetical looming disaster everyone’s been afraid of for years: Utah County is hit with an earthquake.
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