Comments about ‘Prepare for the Big One, northern Utahns warned’

Prepare. Get involved. Family, neighborhood. It's not If, but When. Utilize the CERT resources.

It seems kind of sully that city officials, all along the front, have allowed homes to be built right on the fault (foothills).

there will never be a big one here... not in this lifetime at least... maybe 150 years down the road but not now!

Thanks, John, for that scientific explanation. What are you basing your findings on? I think I'll trust the USGS over your DMN reader coment.

The Scout motto is: "BE PREPARED".

This may sound over simplified and juvenile to some,
BUT Reality IS REAL!! Those mountains that surround the valleys of the Wasatch Front didn't just grow there like plants. They are the result of major Earth Movements over the years long before Brigham Young and the Pioneers arrived. Planet Earth is still growing and changing. There's HOT Molten Magma underneath the surface that we live on moving things around very slowly, but SURELY. (Theory of Plate Techtonics>> current scientific belief).

California also needs to be Prepared, like many other places in the World too... This slow movement DOES cause things to Re-Arrange DOWN Below the surface....

It's not a matter of "If" there will be another Big Earth-Quake in the area, BUT it's just a Question of
"When?".

Those who are Ready/"Prepared" are likely to do much better when it DOES Happen, than those who are NOT Ready/Prepared.

I DID learn somethings very USE-ful in the Boy Scouts, in fact I learned many useful things.

This simple motto is Very Practical!!

@John: Are you talking about your lifetime, or will life on Earth end sometime before your 150-year prediction?

I-15 runs along a fault line? I think not. I do believe i-215 crosses the Wasatch Fault in several places on the east side. I think Cory Lyman needs to look at a map on occasion so that he knows what he is talking about.

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