Exposing the Wasatch Fault -- A Source of Large Earthquakes along the Wasatch Front
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2024
- Video highlighting a recent trench investigation of the Wasatch fault
The Wasatch fault is Utah's longest and most active fault, extending along the Wasatch Front from southern Idaho to central Utah. Although no large earthquakes have ruptured the fault historically, abundant geologic evidence indicates that the fault is capable of generating earthquakes as large as magnitude 6.5--7.5.
This video takes you along the trace of the Wasatch fault, showing its proximity to cities and towns in the Wasatch Front region, and also highlighting the history of past large earthquakes on the central, most active segments of the fault. The video also includes footage from a recent trench investigation at the North Creek site on the Nephi segment of the fault, and describes how geologists interpret evidence of large, prehistoric earthquakes.
Are you guys going to do an updated video due the recent earthquake in Magna?
Ten thousand years ago there was a major earthquake in one of the cottonwood canyons is that the most recent one?
A few more to record today! Hopefully our 5.7 today was the large one we are due for. :)
Nick Brown amen, not sure how bad a 6.5+ would damage the city, let alone the mass hysteria that would happen from a big one.. I too am praying nothing bigger than today will happen for the next few decades
Omg I will never forget what happened in Salt Lake City, i was in my bed playing with my phone, I have 5 kids so in seconds everything started screaming and crying and of course I got a panic attack and thanks to my husband who was there took the kids because I was in shock, thanks to my doctor I have prescription for my heart, I can’t even breathe
Doubtful
@@magical8013 lol. How did you stumble up on this comment 4.5 years later?
After the small one we had out in magna, I am certain Utah would completely fall apart if we had anything higher than a 6. You had people having panic attacks and talking about the earthquake a year later. I lived in California before I came to Utah and I I've been in a lot of earthquakes and you get used to them. The people in Utah are not used to them and the chaos it's going to cause will rival the damage
I have a question. Do you guys know how the bluff in Syracuse/West point was formed?
Sandbars of the Great Salt Lake years ago if you look up on the side of the mountain there are lines or scrub Oak is growing and then 40 ft 40-50 feet above. There's another line of scrub Oak that's the old Lake Bonneville Lake lines
Poor puppy went hungry. lol.
Where can I find the video that shows if a mega earthquake hit would flood bountiful and salt lake city.. or was I just dreaming
Not possible.
Utah earthquakes can't be no more than 7.0 and how would the flooding happen?
There's barely any water in the salt lake haha
@@GONZALUMA I saw thr video along time ago I dont think it's real but would be cool to see
@@westvillefinest697 I don't think it's real either. Unless they're talking about liquefaction which turns the soil into a liquid state. But still don't think there would be a flood.
@@GONZALUMAlike I said it was just a documentary of what could happen.. it could of been in a dream when I saw it lol it said it would flood all of north salt lake bountiful and up to Kearns
@@westvillefinest697 So basically you mean everything in the 4200's elevation wise since it is not much higher than the lake itself. Plus it holds a significant portion of the shallow ground water that the Jordan river keeps permeated horizontally throughout its path from utah lake to the great salt lake.
K now I'm moving