SALT LAKE CITY — If an earthquake were to strike the Wasatch Front, it could kill as many as 2,300 and injure more than 30,000, officials say, but much of this could be prevented if Utahns retrofitted their homes for seismic safety.
The last earthquake of magnitude 5.5 or higher in Salt Lake City was in 1910, and Barry Welliver, a structural engineer, said he feels like "chicken little" warning people the sky is falling when he talks about the possibility of earthquakes in the state.
"We're playing catch up a little bit here," he said. "We're still in the denial stage."
According to the handbook for earthquakes in Utah, "Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country," large, damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in an area that follows the path of I-15, and "the next large earthquake is becoming increasingly likely on certain parts of the Wasatch fault," which runs through some of Salt Lake City's priciest real estate.
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