Photo essay of four Utah Earthquakes, 1921-1962

Download or read book Photo essay of four Utah Earthquakes, 1921-1962 written by Sandra N. Eldredge and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This photo essay contains selected photos, brief text, and newspaper excerpts for four significant earthquakes in Utah, illustrating what happened and what could happen during an earthquake. Original photos were compiled by Edith H. O’Brien, Earthquake Education Services, University of Utah Seismograph Stations (UUSS), Salt Lake City, Utah as part of an earthquake education project funded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (Susan J. Nava, co-project investigator). The project, Personalizing the Earthquake Threat in the Intermountain West, is a collection of photographs, newspaper articles, and personal accounts of 48 earthquakes in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah.