Research in the wake of last year's magnitude 5.7 Magna earthquake and aftershocks reveals the Wasatch fault is curved, making it closer to the surface — and more dangerous — than previously ...

About 240 miles long, Utah's Wasatch Fault stretches along the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains from southern Idaho to central Utah, running through Salt Lake City and the state's other ...

A network of fissures, known as the Wasatch fault zone, runs 220 miles from central Utah north along the Wasatch Front through Salt Lake City into Idaho, a region with as many as 185,000 homes and ...

Using rock samples collected from the Wasatch Fault, geoscientists combined experiments and analysis with examinations of fault rock textures. The team's research revealed significant clues about ...

The Wasatch Fault produces earthquakes at pretty consistent intervals, and the likelihood of another big one letting go somewhere along one or several of these segments is just around the corner.

The Wasatch Fault Zone runs beneath most of the Wasatch Front. BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner. 4 / 5. People wander around a fault scarp from the 1934 Hansel Valley 6.6 magnitude earthquake.

Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the 5.7 magnitude earthquake that jolted Utahns out of bed in the Salt Lake Valley and, since then, scientists have learned new information about the ...

Fault lines along the Wasatch Front are much bigger than initially thought, according to a new study released by the Utah Department of Natural Resources. KUTV. Utah DNR released new maps along ...

In our case the weapon is not a bomb but the infamous Wasatch Fault. It's 240 miles long, extending from Malad City, Idaho south to Fayette, Utah.

The Wasatch Fault is divided into 10 segments, which act mostly independently, researchers think. The 25-mile-long (40 km) Salt Lake City segment is thought to be one of the most hazardous, ...