5.7 earthquake in Salt Lake City

[Clash City Rocker]

Like the virus wasn’t enough trouble.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/57-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-salt-lake-city/story?id=69662609

[evertonfc]

1. damage likely

[BumRushDaShow]

2. That's wild. A pile of aftershocks around it too.

Wonder how it manifests up in the mountains like that.


ETA - Da fuq??????????????

[Wounded Bear]

4. I'm pretty sure the ground shakes a lot...

Sorry, couldn't resist.

5.7 is pretty strong, especially for a place not used to tremors. SoCal would shrug off something less than 6.0 most days, but I'm not sure how good the building codes are in SLC for earthquake prep.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. There was a 5.8 in Virgina in 2011 - hundreds of miles from here in Philly

yet not only did we feel it here but some of our oldest masonary buildings (like City Hall) experienced damage from it (it radiated up the east coast due to how the underlying rock is continuous up the coast). My old building (which was sitting over an area near a river) was swaying. We saw what that did to the Washington Monument too...

In this case, I did a quick search and see there is a fault there. We hear so much about the California faults that we rarely hear about others...





I remember always being taught that "the west coast is (geologically) always moving and growing" and "the east coast is (geologically) old and worn".

[Calculating]

3. Yeah it woke me up this morning, felt like somebody was shaking my bed

Plagues, fires and Earthquakes. What a year so far.

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. And the Anti-Christ in the White House.

[defacto7]

7. I posted when it hit. We are in SLC

The Airport has been evacuated and all flight diverted.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213120644#post20