Earthquakes

Earthquakes Earthquakes The Mapleton, Utah area is near an active fault. This fault’s name is the Wasatch Fault. The Wasatch Fault actually runs right through the center of Mapleton. According to the Utah Geological Survey map showing earthquake faults (which I have enclosed in my portfolio), my family’s house is located less than a mile away from the fault. This was a scary thought to me that I live so close to a fault and even more of a scary thought that the fault is an active fault. The Wasatch Fault’s most recent earthquake-at the time I wrote this report-was Feb 16, 2005 at 8:03 am (2). Although this quake was very small and close to invisible in magnitude, it still shows that the fault is indeed active. This particular quake had a magnitude of 1.4. An earthquake this small does not tend to create any immediate harm or fear since they usually go unfelt, but that doesn’t mean the chances of having a big dangerous quake is out of the question. Many little earthquakes have occurred along this fault. One would be a .5 magnitude quake on Feb 13, 2005, and another Feb 11, 2005 with a magnitude of 1.1 (2). Because fault, utah, wasatch, mapleton, earthquake, years, magnitude, house, greater, survey, quake, map, earthquakes, very, time, recurrence, potential, months, liquefaction, geological, feb, between, along, 2005, thought, testing, small, since, scary, safe, region, recent, provo, portfolio