A major fault located in Utah, USA, called the Wasatch Fault, is worrying scientists. It could cause larger earthquakes in Salt Lake City. A new study shows that this fault descends less steeply ...

In the study, the fault length went unchanged, however 288 miles of new fault traces were mapped. “Fault zones are complicated. They are wide, they change along the whole range front," said Kleber.

Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the 5.7 magnitude earthquake that jolted Utahns out of bed in the Salt Lake Valley and, since then, scientists have learned new information about the ...