The American City Built On A Fault That Nobody Talks About
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Salt Lake City sits beside one of the most spectacular mountain walls in America. But those mountains are not just scenery. Will The Big One Hit Utah? They were built by the same fault system running directly beneath one of the fastest-growing metropolitan regions in the United States. The Wasatch Fault stretches for roughly 240 miles along the western edge of the Rocky Mountains. Beneath Salt Lake City, its geological record shows repeated large earthquakes and the last major rupture on the Salt Lake segment occurred roughly 1,400 years ago. In March 2020, the region got a reminder. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near Magna, damaging buildings, knocking out power and producing thousands of aftershocks. But according to the Utah Geological Survey, that earthquake was not the Big One. A magnitude 7 event would release roughly 90 times more energy. And the fault itself is only part of the problem. Salt Lake Valley sits on deep layers of soft sediment left behind by ancient Lake B
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