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Friday evening, July 10, 2020Utah’s Health Care Community Worried About COVID SurgeUtah’s medical community is calling on state officials to mandate…

A wastewater facility on Colorado's Western Slope is resuming operations more than a year after it was shut down for causing a sizable earthquake in 2019.

Tuesday morning, March 24, 2020Should Utah Shelter In Place?Both California and New York have issued orders for their residents to “shelter in place” or…

On Wednesday, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook the Salt Lake Valley. To help explain the science behind this event, KUER’s Caroline Ballard turned to Dr.…

Updated 7:32 p.m. MDT 3/18/2020 A 5.7 magnitude earthquake, centered 3 miles north of Magna, shook the Wasatch Front at 7:09 a.m. MDT Wednesday, the…

Updated 5:36 p.m. MDT 3/18/2020The 5.7 earthquake that shook Salt Lake County and the region Wednesday morning had Utahns already anxious from the…

Wednesday morning, March 18, 2020Earthquake Hits Salt Lake CityA 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Salt Lake City just after 7 a.m. this morning and has been…

Nara Bopp was working at a thrift store in Moab, Utah the morning of March 4 when her desk started moving. “I immediately assumed that it was a garbage...

Jim Pechmann is probably one of the few remaining people in the world who wears a pager clipped to his belt. But it’s for a good reason.Pechmann is a…

After a string of natural disasters, many Utahns are wondering if the state is ready for an emergency. With a high likelihood of a large earthquake in the…

Salt Lake County’s public elementary schools are now designated safe zones in the event of an earthquake or natural disaster. A new program will turn the…

Geologist Jeffrey Moore led a team to Rainbow Bridge last year to listen to the sandstone mass. The researchers used seismic sensors the size of coffee…