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THE WASATCH FAULT
The Wasatch fault lies at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains and can be traced 240 miles from the north in southern Idaho to I have lived near the Wasatch fault my entire life and have never felt an earthquake generated by the Wasatch fault, but that doesn’t mean I won’t. Everyday could be the time this huge beast could come alive and kill hundreds of thousands of people and completely destroy the future for many people. To make things worse many of the people who live along the Wasatch fault live on the bed of old Lake Bonneville here sand, mud and clay deposited 10,000 years ago or more is a perfect place for liquefaction to occur. Liquefaction is a process by which the sand, mud , clay and water during a sevier earthquake will have a quicksand effect under buildings, bridges and roads and cause them to sink or partly sink or tilt ether destroying the buildings ,bridges or roads making them uninhabitable or useless . It’s for sure that gas and water lines will break and that flooding or fire will destroy many homes and businesses. It’s also possible that Salt Lake City, Provo and Ogden could sustain floods if the dams above the selected cities were to break. If the earthquake were to hit at night during the winter time this could be very serious because most if not all the people who live along the Wasatch fault depend on natural gas to heat there homes, many many people would be left without heat or water when outside temperatures could be as low as 10 degrees above zero or lower.
the small community of Fayette, Utah on the south. The Wasatch fault is one of the longest normal faults in North America, the Wasatch fault is the eastern boundary of the Great Basin which it’s self has many faults similar to the Wasatch fault. Recently a 6.0 earthquake was generated near wells, Nevada and had a devastating effect on the older buildings in the town. The Great Basin is being stretched out to the west of the Wasatch fault by about 3 to 8 mm per year. The stretching or extension is the cause of the faulting process in the Great Basin. The Wasatch fault is actually composed of 10 fault segments which can move independent of the other segments. The segments average about 25 miles in length. The Wasatch fault is capable of producing a 7.5 earthquake or larger. The last large earthquake occurred on the provo segment of the Wasatch fault about 620 years ago
The Wasatch fault scarp can be traced at A ,B And C locations
The Wasatch fault scarp cut through a lateral glacier morain at A, B and C
Wasatch fault scarp at 3900 s. and Highland drive in Salt Lake city
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