Earthquake in North Utah
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Earthquake in North Utah
Cache valley area had like a 4.5 or something like that. Radio this morning said it was the first quake since a 5.9 in St. George like 20 years ago.
Don't quakes cause more quakes? If you have a fault, say, like the Wasatch fault, that has been building tension for a million years and could go at any moment and cause "the big one" , doesn't a quake nearby kind of shake things up a bit and make it more likely?
anyone here know anyone in that area?
Don't quakes cause more quakes? If you have a fault, say, like the Wasatch fault, that has been building tension for a million years and could go at any moment and cause "the big one" , doesn't a quake nearby kind of shake things up a bit and make it more likely?
anyone here know anyone in that area?
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Re: Earthquake in North Utah
I'm no geologist, but what I remember from my geology classes is smaller quakes release tension. So if you have a lot of smaller quakes it would most likely (although not in all cases) decrease the possibility of a bigger quake.
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Re: Earthquake in North Utah
you think Big Sky would take Utah?BoiseBYU wrote:I thought this was metaphorical and had to do with U of U moving to the Big Sky conference