Posted on 04/17/2010 4:49:13 PM PDT by TaraP
Large earthquakes — above 4 on the Richter Scale — are occurring in Utah at about a normal rate, but geologists say it seems much higher.
Thursday evening's quake on the Utah/Wyoming border is number 27 so far this year in Utah. That one near Randolph was one of the strongest in the state in 75 years, according to seismic station reports, the U.S. Geological Survey and professional quake watchers.
Although there was little to no damage Thursday at the surface of the epicenter, some 77 miles northeast of Salt Lake City, that doesn't mean that it wasn't geologically significant. If the current pace continues, more than 90 significant earthquakes will occur by the end of the year.
Between April of last year and now, there were 80 large earthquakes, according to the USGS, which is quick to point out quakes are just part of the natural give and take in the supporting land mass miles below Utah's surface.
Whenever there is a seismic event in the Mountain West, it's a pretty good bet the Yellowstone National Park caldera is involved. It is a still-active volcano and massive slab of fractured fault-split of land centered in Wyoming.
Scientists believe the crust beneath Yellowstone is highly fractured, and that the stress of other recent earthquakes on the region is a cogent warning of devastating shifts to come.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
If the Yellowstone Caldera goes off...Obama’s health care will be the least of our worries...lol.
Freegards,
Lex
” are occurring in Utah at about a normal rate, “
Hmmmmmmm....
Must be a really slow news day in Utah.....
Ignorant overreaction by the newspaper. Not all earthquakes in the intermountain west involve the Yellowstone volcano.
Yea but look at the bright side, no global warming for a long time. :o)
Is it true that the Bonneville subspecies are much larger than their Nevada cousins?
I’ve never encountered any graboids. The Michigan soil is too wet for them.
This is true, it would not be a good thing that’s fer sure. I think I read that the land mass around that area has been rising for several years.
The writer left out an important word.
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