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Earthquakes occur frequently in Utah, though they tend to be small (below a 5.0 magnitude). The highest-risk zone is along the Wasatch Front , where most of the state's population is located. The larger cities include the state's capital, Salt Lake City , as well as Lehi , Ogden , Orem , Provo , Sandy , and West Valley City .
It was the first major earthquake to occur within the Salt Lake Valley since the city was founded, [5] the state's strongest earthquake since the 1992 St. George earthquake, and the first earthquake of comparable magnitude to occur near Salt Lake City since 1962, when a magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck a similar location in Magna. [6] [7]
A report released by Bob Carey of Utah's Office of Emergency Services and published by the Deseret News in April 2006 predicts that a strong earthquake occurring in Salt Lake City could kill up to 6,200 people, injure 90,000, and cause US$40 billion in economic losses. Due to the earthquake danger not being well known when many structures were ...
The 1962 Cache Valley earthquake was a magnitude M w 5.9 earthquake that occurred on Thursday, 30 August 1962 at approximately 6:35 AM MT north of Richmond, Utah, United States, at the border between Utah and Idaho. No people were killed in the quake. The quake caused between US $1–2 million in damage.
Earthquakes in Utah (7 P) H. Hurricanes in Utah (4 P) T. ... 2003 Utah snowstorm; Mid-December 2007 North American winter storms; 2011 Davis County windstorm; 2020 ...
The state typically experiences between 10 and 20 earthquakes above magnitude 2.0 each year, said Andy Newman, a professor of geophysics at Georgia Tech. As for what’s behind the recent shakes ...
List of earthquakes in Utah; 0–9. 1901 Richfield earthquake; 1921 Sevier Valley earthquake; 1934 Hansel Valley earthquake; 1962 Cache Valley earthquake; S.
The 1921 Sevier Valley earthquake was a series of three earthquakes. The primary quake was a magnitude M w 6.3 earthquake that occurred on Thursday, 29 September 1921 at approximately 7:12 AM MT in Elsinore, Utah, United States. The first aftershock occurred in the evening on the same day, and a second aftershock occurred two days later on 1 ...