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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 ...
The 2020 Sparta earthquake was a relatively uncommon intraplate earthquake that occurred near the small town of Sparta, North Carolina, on August 9, 2020 at 8:07 am local time. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 5.1, and a shallow depth of 7.6 kilometers (4.7 mi). [2] Shaking was reported throughout the Southern, Midwestern, and ...
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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 Crandall Canyon Mine is located at 39°27′36″N 111°10′03.5″W (39.460000°, -111.167639°) [1] with its entrance at an elevation of 7,835 feet (2,388 m). The mine is located in Emery County, Utah, in the Wasatch plateau coal field. [2] The mine is located about 140 miles (230 km) south of Salt Lake City, 34 miles (55 km) southeast ...
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 ...