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Utah s Wasatch fault is curved, meaning it could be even more dangerous

Utah s Wasatch fault is curved, meaning it could be even more dangerous
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A year after Magna earthquake, here s what Utahns are doing — or should be — to prepare for the big one

A year after Magna earthquake, here’s what Utahns are doing or should be to prepare for the big one Brian Maffly © Leah Hogsten (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Homeowner Ken Magleby, center, watches as Hills Construction foreman Adam Beazer, left, and worker Ron Cherrier, right, drill helical stainless steel rods into brick walls, reinforce roof rafters with wood blocks and nail framing angles and steel coil into the roof of his 1951 home during seismic reinforcement to his home, Mar. 11, 2021. Hills Construction specializes in seismic retrofits and workers are busy reinforcing homes, a year after the Wasatch Front s strongest earthquake on record shook unreinforced masonry structures.

A year after Magna earthquake, what should Utahns do to prepare for the big one?

| Updated: 2:07 p.m. 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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