A sizeable earthquake hit near the Utah-Wyoming border early Thursday morning.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake rattled areas of northern Utah shortly before 8 a.m. and measured at a magnitude of 4.7. Seismographs tracked the earthquake to a location 20 miles south of Evanston, and just five miles south of the Utah-Wyoming border.
USGS data shows the rumble’s origins were located in the Uinta mountains, just two miles west of the East Fork of the Bear River campground.
“There aren’t too many people up there,” Dan Struhs with Uintalands Association, another business just a few miles from the epicenter, told ABC4.com.
The quake is reported to have originated at a depth of just over 13 kilometers below sea level. Seismologists with the University of Utah say that is likely about 15 kilometers below the Earth’s crust.
According to Keith Koper, the director of the University of Utah Seismograph Station, says the quake was located further east of where earthquakes are more frequent. “It was located… kind of in a funny spot.”
No comments:
Post a Comment