Double faults raise risk of big Salt Lake City earthquake

By Becky OskinLiveScienceTwo faults bounding Utah's biggest city may combine to produce especially powerful earthquakes, geologists will report in Salt Lake City Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America.Utah's biggest earthquake fault runs east of Salt Lake City, at the base of the steep Wasatch Mountains. About 75 percent of the state's population lives near the 240...    

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