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Kelly Dazet was home, fixing himself a cup of coffee, when a roar like a passing freight train filled his Sugar House neighborhood.
“All of a sudden everything was moving. It felt like the house was going back and forth and up and down,” Dazet said, recalling the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that rocked northern Utah a year ago this month. “The cat ran under the table. How does a cat know to do that? Everything was rattling and shaking.”
Among the jarring that morning was the unreinforced masonry enveloping Dazet’s 1924 home, an example of Salt Lake City’s dominant construction mode from that era.
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Julia Hatcher, sixth-grade reading and language arts teacher at Fort Dodge Middle School, poses for a picture in her classroom. While Hatcher said it has been a stressful year due to changes in scheduling from the pandemic, she said attendance and grades have been about the same as in previous years in her classes. -Messenger photo by Chad Thompson
Students in Julia Hatcherâs sixth-grade class appear onscreen during a recent virtual learning session. Many of the students said they like learning virtually because the teacher is there to provide feedback. Other students said they prefer face-to-face learning.