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    • 03/26/2020 at 3:04 PM #122225
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      PlainsUte
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      Just going to leave this here. Trendline of depth of recent quakes vs. longitude. Latitude is S. Temple Street. Longitude of surface intersection around 700 E. Firmly tongue-in-cheek, but what if?

       

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    • 03/26/2020 at 4:35 PM #122227
      Tony (admin)
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      So most of the quakes are at South Temple and 700 east? 

      • 03/26/2020 at 7:01 PM #122234
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        PlainsUte
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        Somehow my original reply disappeared.   Just showing how the quake centers are moving due east, essentially parallel to South Temple and getting closer-and-closer to the surface and wondering where they might reach the surface and potentially cause some surface cracks/movement.  Turns out a linear extrapolation puts it near 700E, but from the cross-section below one can see the fault line does not slope in a straight line, but may curve up.

        Wasatch fault cross-section

        [img]https://i.imgur.com/9ZG97vH.jpg[/img]Quake Map

    • 03/26/2020 at 4:41 PM #122228
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      UteThunder
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      What if . . . what, exactly?

    • 03/26/2020 at 5:06 PM #122230
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      PlainsUte
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      What if City Creek Center would fall into a fissure near the surface?

      • 03/26/2020 at 5:46 PM #122232
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        EagleMountainUte
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        Free Masons and Governors mansion won’t like it.

        Also could potentially damage a major hospital in the area. 

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