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1962. 1967. 1989. 1992. 2020. This is a list of moderate to large earthquakes that have occurred in Utah. Only earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 or greater are listed. Aftershocks are not included, unless they were of great significance or contributed to a death toll. Earthquakes occur frequently in Utah, though they tend to be small (below a ...
Casualties. Several injured. At 7:09 AM MDT on March 18, 2020, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, with an epicenter 6 km (3.7 mi) north-northeast of Magna, Utah, [1] beneath the site of the planned Utah Inland Port. It was the first major earthquake to occur within the Salt Lake Valley since the city was founded ...
The Wasatch Fault. Dates indicate approximately when the most recent strong (magnitude greater than 6.5) earthquake occurred on a fault segment. The Wasatch Fault is an active fault located primarily on the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains in the U.S. states of Utah and Idaho. The fault is about 240 miles (390 kilometres) long, stretching ...
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The Utah Geological Survey is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It also has an office in Cedar City, Utah. [1] It is a division of the Utah Department of Natural Resources [2] and is an applied scientific agency, which creates, interprets, and provides information about Utah's geological environment, resources and hazards, in order ...
The Utah Seismic Safety Commission (USSC) is a legislatively created independent advisory board that tends to seismic-hazard issues in Utah, United States.The Utah legislature created the 15-member commission in 1994 to supersede the Utah Earthquake Advisory Board and to act as a medium "for state and local governments, the private sector, and the public to advance earthquake-related issues by ...
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, or PNSN, collects and studies ground motions from about 400 seismometers in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. PNSN monitors volcanic and tectonic activity, gives advice and information to the public and policy makers, and works to mitigate earthquake hazard.
Pages in category "Earthquakes in Utah" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... 1962 Cache Valley earthquake; S. 2020 Salt Lake City earthquake;