Rockin' the Wasatch

[Earthquake Alert] Is your house right on the Wasatch Fault Line? This video from the Utah Geological Survey has answers! Sort of! Somewhere, former City Weekly editor Ben Fulton is mind-screaming "I told you so! I told you so!"



(Bill Frost)

Whose Fault Is it?

[Quake-Up Call] Check out this 10-minute flyover of the Wasatch Fault. After the video highlights the path of earthquake destruction and the fact that we're long overdue for the Big One, its cheery narrator optimistically concludes "We can't change the fault but we can learn to live with it." Aside from spending millions to retrofit historic buildings and U of U facilities, just how does one learn to live with it?

(Jerre Wroble)

Welcome to L.A.

[Earthquake] My 20-year-old daughter has at last become a true Angelino.

She called a couple of hours ago to tell me all was well, after a 5.4 earthquake rattled Los Angeles and environs just after 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time today. She attends Occidental College in the L.A. neighborhood of Eagle Rock. She stayed there this summer to work at the college library. No big damage, she reported by phone, just rumbling of the floor beneath her and several books dumped from the shelves to the floor.

I asked her if, now that she's been through her first California quake, was she ready to come back to Zion? Silly me. After all, we're still waiting for the Big One here.

Above: Damage from the whopper 1989 Loma Prieta, Calif., quake. (Holly Mullen)