SALT LAKE CITY – Often after a disaster, scam artists and identity thieves attempt to prey on vulnerable survivors.Sometimes, those who try to register with FEMA discover that someone has already registered using their name. Scammers may contact survivors who have not registered with FEMA and try to extract money or information. In these cases, it’s likely the survivor’s personal …
Communicado de prensa: FEMA exhorta a los sobrevivientes de los terremotos en Utah a que se protejan contra el fraude y robo de identidad
SALT LAKE CITY – A menudo, después de un desastre, los estafadores y ladrones de identidad intentan aprovecharse de los sobrevivientes vulnerables. En ocasiones, las personas que intentan solicitar asistencia de FEMA descubren que alguien ya se ha registrado con su nombre. Los estafadores pueden comunicarse con los sobrevivientes que aún no se han registrado con FEMA y tratar de …
News release: Magna Earthquake Individual Assistance Remote Inspection Process
July 22, 2020 SALT LAKE CITY – Due to the nationwide Covid-19 emergency, FEMA is using remote inspections to assess damage to homes in Salt Lake and Davis counties cause by earthquakes between March 18 and April 17. Utahns who applied for federal disaster assistance — and reported that they may not or cannot live at home due to earthquake damage …
4 months later: Did you have damage from the Magna earthquake?
Davis and Salt Lake County residents may be eligible for federal assistance Disaster Assistance steps Register with FEMA at DisasterAssistance.gov or or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY) for the hearing and speech impaired. Help in many languages is also available. Registration takes you through a survey with about 25 questions, asking the location of the home, how many occupants, what kind of …
News release: Salt Lake and Davis County residents with March earthquake losses can register with FEMA
July 16, 2020 Utah homeowners and renters in Salt Lake and Davis counties who had uninsured losses from the March 18 earthquake may be eligible for federal disaster assistance from FEMA. FEMA has programs that provide financial help with temporary housing expenses, basic home repairs and other essential disaster-related needs. First, if you haven’t already done so, contact your insurance …
Communicado de prensa: Los residentes de los Condados de Salt Lake y Davis que sufrieron perdidas a consecuencia del terremoto de Marzo pueden solicitar asistencia de FEMA
SALT LAKE CITY – Los propietarios de vivienda e inquilinos en los condados Salt Lake y Davis en Utah que sufrieron pérdidas no cubiertas por un seguro a consecuencia del terremoto del 18 de marzo podrían ser elegibles para recibir asistencia federal por desastre de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés). Los …
Earthquake anxiety fades… eventually
2 months ago today, northern Utah was shaken by the largest quake in the Beehive State in a generation. Can you believe it? More than 2,000 aftershocks later, Utah is recovering from the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that woke us up at 7:09 a.m. That earthquake, the largest in Utah since a 5.9 quake in 1992, was another reminder that Utah …
Magnitude 6.5 earthquake shakes western Nevada
Early Friday morning, at 5:03 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, Californians and Nevadans were awakened to shaking from a magnitude 6.5 earthquake with an epicenter in the Soda Spring Valley, about 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada. Though the most intense shaking was felt in Nevada and California, a handful of Utahns reported feeling light shaking as well — 300 to …
A clearer look at earthquake faults in Utah
Thanks to a 4-year effort by the Utah Geological Survey, Utah now has a better look at Wasatch Front faults from southern Idaho to central Utah The overall length of the Wasatch fault, 240 miles, has not changed, but details to the existing faults have been added to the library. We now have 739 mapped miles of fault strands, compared …
U.S. earthquake history: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake
What changes do you make when 80 percent of the city is destroyed? How do you plan ahead so this doesn’t happen here? 114 years ago today, at 5:12 a.m., what is understood to be a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck the coast of northern California. Shaking lasted for 42 seconds and was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles. The earthquake, …






