A major fault located in Utah, USA, called the Wasatch Fault, is worrying scientists. It could cause larger earthquakes in Salt Lake City. A new study shows that this fault descends less steeply ...

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 ...

Slickrock: Geologists explore why Utah's Wasatch Fault is vulnerable to earthquakes Date: May 6, 2025 Source: Utah State University Summary: Using rock samples collected from the Wasatch Fault ...

Experts believe that the Wasatch Fault, one of the longest and most active normal faults in the world, is long overdue for a major earthquake, with a 57% chance of experiencing a magnitude 6.0 or ...

Experts say the Salt Lake Valley’s segment of the Wasatch fault is at an acute juncture in a recurring 1,400-year geologic cycle of massive earthquakes. Seismic predictors point to a matter of ...

An earthquake somewhere along the Wasatch Fault could result in approximately 2,500 deaths, $33 billion in economic losses and 330,000 households without potable water for over 90 days, according ...

A 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the mountains south of Heber Valley early Thursday morning, rattling much of Wasatch and Utah counties. The earthquake occurred west of Independence at 12:11 a ...

Using rock samples collected from the Wasatch Fault, Utah State University geoscientists combined experiments and analysis in USU's Rock Deformation and Earthquake Mechanics lab with ...