Utah Earthquake

Facts about the earthquake :

Location: Northern Utah, It looks like it took place east of Ogden and North of Salt Lake City 

Time and Date:  June 6th, 2023 at roughly 3:23 pm local time 

Nearby places:  Evanston Wyoming, Farmington Utah, Centerville Utah, Kaysville Utah, and Salt Lake City 

Depth of earthquake: This earthquake was fairly shallow it was about 7.146 miles deep, or 11.5 km deep

Magnitude: The magnitude of this quake was 2.5 

Utah Earthquake history: 

Utah is part of the Intermountain Seismic belt that runs north to south. According to the USGS website Utah started experiencing earthquakes mid -1962. It is also said that Utah is known for having M5 or larger earthquakes every 10 years and ones greater than M6 every 50 years. The fault that is the most active but has had little seismic activity is the Wasatch Fault, this fault stretches over 240 miles from Southern Idaho to Northern Utah. This fault is a normal fault that has formed on a divergent plate boundary.
How this affects me : 

I grew up in Utah and took a Natural Disaster class a few semesters ago and learned more about how Utah and Idaho have more earthquakes and floods than I expected. This doesn't change how I feel about where I live. Salt Lake City might have earthquakes but most of the time they are either 1. deep enough that nothing happens or 2 they are so small that you can't feel them. 

The one thing that I found interesting was this earthquake was fairly shallow. According to the reading I did in my other class it's normally the shallow quakes that do the most damage because of the s or surface waves, but this one there was nothing about the damage it had caused and no one said they felt it.

I got most of my information form the Google Earth link to the USGS website