KEY TAKEAWAYS Utah is overdue for a major earthquake, raising concerns about preparedness. Envision Utah's survey shows residents worry about short-term impacts more than infrastructure.

Here's how Utah State University is helping Utah prepare for a bigger earthquake three years after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake that was felt widely across the Wasatch Front.

Utah has a history of larger earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 or greater. The cause of Utah's seismic activity is not that it lies on a boundary between tectonic plates, like California and Japan.

The state of Utah was just struck with a 5.7 magnitude earthquake near the Salt Lake City area. The quake was the strongest in the state since 1992, knocking out power to nearly 50,000 people.

Siding hangs from a building that was damaged by an earthquake on March 18, 2020 in Magna, Utah. A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit the Salt Lake Valley on Wednesday morning followed by at least 20 ...

Utah averages a magnitude 6 earthquake once every 15 to 20 years." This is the 11th year for the event, and participation was up from 730,000 last year.

Soon after Salt Lake City stopped shaking March 18 from its strongest earthquake on record, Amir Allam, a University of Utah seismologist, knew he had to get busy if he hoped to closely study the ...

Utah in 2020: With COVID, an earthquake, winds and fires, it was a year many may like to forget — but never will Protests against racism and police violence also brought reforms, while voters ...

Dr. Keith Koper, director of University of Utah Seismograph Stations, shows an earthquake pattern from a seismometer in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. | Mengshin Lin, Deseret News ...