Tag Archive for: hazards
Q&A — What you need to know about landslides. A great and informative article from The Salt Lake Tribune. Check it out!
sltrib.com
Check out the following articles for more information.
fox13now.com
More than 20 homes are damaged after flash flooding in Carbon County overnight.
sltrib.com
The rains that have triggered flooding and mudslides this week were expected to ease going into the midweek, but that will come too late for homeowners in northern and central Utah.
Listen to our Deputy Director, Kimm Harty, talk to KSL about the North Salt Lake landslide.
ksl.com
Three homes remain at risk from a landslide that pushed one home off its foundation and damaged a sports facility shortly before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
kutv.com
Holly Menino and 2News photographer Mike Stephen were the first on the scene and captured this amazing time lapse video of a land slide in a North Salt Lake neighborhood.
Read more about the landslide that destroyed a home early this morning in North Salt Lake, and other homes that are in the process of evacuation. Two of our geologists from the Utah Geological Survey are en route. We’ll keep you updated as information becomes available.
ksl.com
A home was destroyed Tuesday morning by a mudslide in North Salt Lake and the area has been evacuated as a precaution, officials said.
sltrib.com
Landslide hits N. Salt Lake, more than 20 homes evacuated
Residents of more than 20 hillside homes in North Salt Lake fled their houses Tuesday morning when unstable, rain-saturated soil above them began to move.
Happy Monday! We hope you all had a great weekend. Here’s an article for your afternoon read—sometimes scientists will go the distance to learn about our local surroundings.
standard.net
Adolph Yonkee is traveling to the Andes Mountains, to learn more about the Rocky Mountains.
smithsonianmag.com
Most of the world’s volcanoes are located deep beneath the sea surface along the mid-ocean ridges where the Earth’s crust spread and creates new ocean floor. Volcanoes on land often occur in subduction zones, where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another, or hotspots created by mantle plumes deep within the planet.
Good morning geo friends! The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has recently updated their U.S. National Seismic Hazard Maps, which reflect the best and most current understanding of where future earthquakes will occur, how often they will occur, and how hard the ground will likely shake. While earthquakes remain hard to predict, the USGS hopes to understand how earthquakes might affect areas specifically to better plan for the event.
usgs.gov
To help make the best decisions to protect communities from earthquakes, new USGS maps display how intense ground shaking could be across the nation.
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