LOLOL.
Lots of quake experiences in Asia.
In Navy days there, in the middle of sleep on a ‘double-back’ where I got off work, had 8 hours to sleep then back for another 8 hours—I thought the houseboy was shaking my bed to wake me up for the next 8 hours.
WRONG.
The bed was sliding back & forth across the polished terrazzo floor from a 5.7-6.0 quake.
I said—Lord, you know—I’m prayed up, repented-up—if You’re going to take me in a quake, fine. If not, I have to work again in a few hours. Please help me get back to sleep. And I rolled over & went back to sleep.
In later years, we hardly looked up unless a quake was above 6.0.
I’m curious what your terrain composition is? Solid rock? Sandstone? Mixed soil & rocks? River born or lake silt?
I don’t recall a lot of quakes in Utah. IIRC, they all tend to be from the Great Salt Lake east to Ogden etc. Is that right?
I haven’t caught DutchSense about it yet. He usually has some interesting observations.
Congrats on surviving! Sorry about the breakage. We learned to avoid breakable things being on shelves.
And kitchen cabinets needed lockable latches or at least lips on the shelf edges.
It is kind of interesting to see sidewalks or concrete floors flow up & down in moving waves.
I’m curious what your terrain composition is? Solid rock? Sandstone? Mixed soil & rocks? River born or lake silt?
Sorry for not answering right away, had some friends call to see how things were, we girls don’t meet right now, we call every day to see how we all are...I’m not the only one being ‘ imprisioned’ ROFLOL...
Anyway, Utah used to be eons ago ‘Bonneville Lake’ and now it’s the Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, and we have Bear Lake, and a few others, The Rockie Mountains are right out my window, they have hiking trails, parks, etc...You go up Parley’s Canyon and that is ‘ski country’...it’s a beautiful state...We had the Winter Olympics when Georgie Bush was POTUS...we have the ski resorts for it, the snow for it...
Then we have Lake Powell, Oh My Gosh beautiful place to take out a big boat and stay on the water for days, fishing also...then we have The Grand Canyon, breathtaking...then you have the Copper Mountain where they mine copper, my Great Grandfather and Grandfather came from Italy and France to America and worked the mine, my Great Grandmother was the first woman to be buried in Sandy City Cemetary, I know a lot of this history isn’t important to anyone other to me, but my roots started here in Utah...my whole family is Catholic, I went to Catholic School in Provo, my Grandmother’s sister and her husband started the ‘Spencer Farms’ in American Fork and worked for Green Giant until they got so old they couldn’t...the farm in now a free way...life goes on, in the summer I worked the farm and dairy...oh the stories...I even worked at the Cannery in the summer sometimes...
https://utah.com/salt-lake-city/history
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Early_Utah_History
I hope these two links will give you an idea about the beauty of this State...it’s not all Mormons...there are others that live here that helped for the State into what it is today...