Earthquake trends…

[PlainsUte]

Just going to leave this here. Trendline of depth of recent quakes vs. longitude. Latitude is S. Temple Street. Longitude of surface intersection around 700 E. Firmly tongue-in-cheek, but what if?

 

[Tony (admin)]

So most of the quakes are at South Temple and 700 east? 

[PlainsUte]

Somehow my original reply disappeared.   Just showing how the quake centers are moving due east, essentially parallel to South Temple and getting closer-and-closer to the surface and wondering where they might reach the surface and potentially cause some surface cracks/movement.  Turns out a linear extrapolation puts it near 700E, but from the cross-section below one can see the fault line does not slope in a straight line, but may curve up.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/9ZG97vH.jpg[/img]

[UteThunder]

What if . . . what, exactly?

[PlainsUte]

What if City Creek Center would fall into a fissure near the surface?

[EagleMountainUte]

Free Masons and Governors mansion won’t like it.

Also could potentially damage a major hospital in the area.