I'm not aware of any fracking in the area of the earthquake.
The epicenter, and all the afterquake shocks, were about 5 miles west of the SLC airport, a mile to two south of the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, a couple miles north and northeast of Magna, and east of the northern tip of the Oquirr mountain at Lakepoint Junction.
The Air Force bombing range is to the west of the lake, about 30 miles away at the nearest point. Dugway Proving Ground is about 50 or 60 miles to the west and south, beyond the Oquirr mountain, the Tooele valley, and another mountain.
The whole area of the initial quake and aftershocks is mostly weeds, owned by Kennecott Copper mining company. There is a railway that passes through the area, but the highway (I-80) is north of all the quake points, closer to the lake. The Kennecott open pit mine is south and west of Magna, a couple miles farther from the quake sites. The county dump and landfill is to the southeast of the area.
I've driven on the highways and streets on all sides of that area, over the past 13 years, and have never seen anything resembling a drilling rig or pumping rig. I would notice, because I look around when I'm driving. That's part of the driving experience.
Closer up to the Oquirrs, there are some facilities and equipment associated with Kennecott's copper mining. I believe most of that is for open pit mining. I've talked to several people who have worked out there, and they've never mentioned any underground work there.
The big famous open pit hole is one mile deep. The quake epicenter was 10.1 km deep, about six miles down. I don't think the quake was related to any human activity.
The Great Salt Lake is the remnant of a much larger Lake Bonneville that existed until the end of the last ice age, about 12-15000 years ago. The water level was about 600 feet above the current GSL level. You can still see the water marks on the surrounding mountains in some areas. It was about the size of Lake Michigan.
So the valleys in this region are sand, gravel, limestone, and sandstone, going way down. Something farther down slipped, or dipped, and the surface material moved around a little bit. Not a big quake.
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This ‘Dutchsinse’ idiot could have flown in and rushed down to the Data Center in Dugway, and Fort Williams, and the copper mine, but to find ‘fracking’ in the center of Magna is laughable...it's flat ground...all of the ‘valley’ of the Salt Lake City area is flat...it used to be ‘Bonneville Lake’ back when the Mormons arrived into the valley...as time went on we got the Great Salt Lake, where Morton Salt mines salt; and there was a great pleasure of going swimming there as you could ‘float’ since the salt held you up...
Utah Lake was part of the big lake, at one time Saratoga Fun park was there, like Lagoon and Saltair (since burned down years ago)...Saratoga is now a camping site as I understand...
The only ‘fracking’ that would be done in Utah would be the Wasatch Mountains, and maybe down south in the State but I really doubt it...our coal industry comes from Carbon, Emery and that area of the state...
The steel plant used to be around Vineyard, Orem area...since shut down and torn down, they don't make steel there anymore...when the men were fighting in WW2, my sister, aunt, cousin were working there, they were called “Molly Riveters”...when the men came back home, those that didn't mine coal, turned farmers, worked at the Steel Plant...
Amazing how people from other parts of the Country ‘assume’ what goes on when they have never lived or researched the area they are talking about...by the way ‘assume’ means: Making an ass out of you and me...just as this Dutchsinse..
The earthquake did do some hard to the copper mine, it spilled some chemicals they use to help with the blasting when they start a new area...the whole of the Okra Mountains is full of copper...it is one of the ‘wonders of the world’ but I guess Dutchsinse would know this???
As far as the Data Center, if there was a problem no one would ever know about it that lives here and you couldn't get anywhere around it if you wanted to, unless you wanted to die...Area 52 is very heavily protected...
Having been born and raised in this State, and having been from the North to the South and the East to the West I do know some of what I am talking about...