A Broad, Distributed Active Fault Zone Lies beneath Salt Lake City, Utah

Although the Wasatch fault is currently known to have a high-seismic hazard from motion along range-bounding faults, new seismic data reveal faulted and folded 13,000–30,000-yr-old Lake Bonneville strata beneath Salt Lake City (SLC). Coupled with previous excavation trench, borehole, and other geolo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lee M. Liberty, James St. Clair, Adam P. McKean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Seismological Society of America 2021-06-01
Series:The Seismic Record
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1785/0320210009