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A recent study from Utah State University geoscientists explores the characteristics of rocks from a fault zone in Utah.
A new paper explains how the properties of fault rocks and geologic events that took place over a billion years ago could ...
A major fault located in Utah, USA, called the Wasatch Fault, is worrying scientists. It could cause larger earthquakes in ...
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Salt Lake City area Wednesday morning, cutting power to tens of thousands and suspending work at Utah’s public health lab amid the coronavirus pandemic ...
Dr. Keith Koper, director of University of Utah Seismograph Stations, shows an earthquake pattern from a seismometer in Salt Lake City on Jan. 28, 2022. (Photo: Mengshin Lin, Deseret News ...
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake shook a portion of Utah early Thursday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was reported just after midnight local time about two ...
Its guiding slogan: “Be Ready Utah.” “Utah is NOT prepared for a major Wasatch fault earthquake,” said a 2015 report from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, a national ...
Experts said they couldn't find a clear mainshock that set off the chain of earthquakes. Katherine Whidden, a research scientist at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations. said that it ...
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — At Philo T. Farnsworth Elementary, students participated in an assembly on earthquake and disaster preparedness. "If an earthquake happens, go under your seat or ...
Earthquake swarms in Utah are suspected to be linked to geothermal energy, according to new research. By analyzing decades of seismic data, seismologists at the University of Utah are working to ...
This most recent probe by Envision Utah shows while people strongly disagree that an earthquake won’t be as bad as expected ...