Earthquake site conditions in the Wasatch Front corridor, Utah (SS-125) Media Type:CD Navajo National Monument

Navajo National Monument

mostly down-to-the-west normal faults

Separating truth from myth

Hanksville

Earthquake site conditions in the Wasatch Front corridor, Utah (SS-125) Media Type:CD Navajo National MonumentBy: G. N. McDonald and F. X. Ashland Contains a 41 page report and a 1: 150,000 scale map defining seismic site conditions for the Wasatch Front urban corridor. This mapping, partially funded through the U. S. Geological Surveys National Hazards Reduction Program, provides a basis for predicting how certain soils and bedrock types may respond to ground motion amplification in a large magnitude earthquake on the Wasatch fault. Average shear wave