Just what SLC needed to help us feel safe in our self distancing—a short, but happy earthquake. I thought I was back in LA in 1971. The Shaken Boner.

Yes I just felt it too! Up in North Ogden area. It was short but strong!

You're alive! Hopefully well.

I’m alive & well, thanks. I’m in SLC area visiting family. Wasn’t expecting to be home schooling my grandkids - started today. Crazy times.
The earthquake made me feel right at home.

First, GC is cancelled due to COVID 19. Now an Earthquake in the epicenter of Mormonville. I think Heavenly Father is pissed at the Q15.

How do you guys deal with the guilt and fear you've made the wrong decision? I feel like if I still believed full-heartedly in the church, I'd be celebrating the signs of the times, but...how am I supposed to deal with the signs of the second coming if I feel like I might be one of the wicked being called to repentance?

I can't worship that petty a god. I'm ok with that.

The simple reality is that sh!t's been happening since time immemorial, be it natural disasters, plagues, wars, you name it. They weren't signs of great portent then, nor are they signs of anything now. They are what we make of them, and hopefully we can make them lessons to learn from as to how we and our descendants respond to future sh!t.

I have absolutely no guilt or fear whatsoever. My TBM 90 year old parents believe this event is the Mormon version of the last days they have been waiting for. All I can do is bare my fervent testimony to you that there is no God, Joseph's Myth was a pedophile and con man, the Q15 are a bunch of spineless lil' shits that have continued the con. Think about it...much evidence of evolution, no evidence of the BOM. You think God commanded JS to marry other women already married, marry 14-year olds, etc. Just keep thinking about the overwhelming evidence against the church. COVID 19 is no apocalyptic event..it will be contained and life will go back to normal.

Just felt another, but smaller.

It shook our whole house. Our son called and said he was stopped at a light when it started and said it felt like he was on the ocean.

I’m in a high rise. That was exciting. :-/

From the Trib ... "A M. 5.7 earthquake hit the Wasatch Front shortly after 7 a.m., shaking homes from at least Logan and going all the way through Salt Lake County. It was the largest earthquake felt in Utah since 1992, though at least so far there’s no reports of major damage.

The epicenter of the earthquake was northeast of Magna, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Seven aftershocks hit shortly after that, with the strongest being a M. 3.9.

Some people are reporting power outages on the west side near the Salt Lake City International Airport and damage within their homes, as pictures fell off walls and dishes out of cupboards."

(Seriously now)
Does the SL airport have regularly scheduled INTERNATIONAL flights, or is their use of word 'International' only MORMON-style PR BS?

They have scheduled flights to Canada, Mexico for sure. These are "international." I believe Delta has scheduled flights to Paris and to London out of SLC as well.

So, YES, it is an international airport.

I don't think the term 'International' is used in any IATA codes, that's the industry standard as far as airport designations / identification.

So it's more HYPE than anything else, we know the Morbots are well-versed in HYPE, don't we?

Flights to Mexico, Canada and Amsterdam direct and other cities with intermediate stop. Sounds international to me

my son has had both his morning flight out and his rescheduled flight this afternoon cancelled due to the earthquake. May have some damage at the airport or something.

I was totally freaked out by the rolling and rumbling. It took my brain a moment to grasp what was happening. Never felt anything like that before!

I've experienced a lot of earthquakes living in the SF bay area. I've experienced them in Japan, and most recently in Vegas in a high rise with a pool on the top floor (that one was quite strong and scared me to death because of the pool). But this one was really something in the way it threw stuff around. I've done more picking up and putting away with this one than any others I've ever experienced. Even though it wasn't that strong, we were right on top of it and that's what made it so violent.

Was it a roller or a shaker?

It was a jolting earthquake. Apparently its epicenter was in Magna, not far from the airport. And it was a slip strike type earthquake so big, jolting action followed by lots of rolling and shaking.

They also said that it was shallow, only 6 or 7 miles deep. That contributed to the violence.

and the aftershocks continue! a strong one a few minutes ago at 4.1

gemini, there is water at the airport. They think that some pipes broke. After that, I haven't been paying attention as I'm working.

Quite a day or month.

Airport is closed. FAA tower shut down. All flights diverted. Not allowing pilots or flight attendants to enter the airport.

Here's a web site on the latest earthquakes.

https://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/recent'

The Utah one was near Magna Utah, 5.7 with 8-10 aftershocks over the last hour.

That's a good-sized earthquake.

Actually, it was centered at the Southeast corner of the Great Salt Lake, close to the airport. Magna has the closest sensor.

I’m still waiting for the Mormon leaders to tell
Utahns to STOP HOARDING FOOD and to reassure the faithful that times will be better. But, those wankers are probably like Kim Jung—holed up in their bunkers.

Hey, BYU Boner. The Slymar Quake in '71 was my first one too. We were just getting up for seminary when it struck.

Today, I'd been home in Clearfield for about an hour after picking up my grandson from work. The first shock felt like a bang (hard shake) followed by 15-20 seconds of rolling.There have been numerous aftershocks, up to twenty above magnitude 3 in the first hour.

On the local news, they've shown bricks that fell from a couple of older buildings in Magna and in downtown SLC. There was some video of water leaking from a ceiling at the airport (fire suppression pipes). Also, there was a shot of Moroni without his trumpet atop the temple.

At the cuzx house, we're all doing fine. I checked the furnace room and other rooms right away. My grandsons were a little shaken up, for sure.

Rollers and shakers are very different. PLEASE CHECK YOUR GAS AND OTHER UTILITY LINES. It is also a good idea to walk your property and check your foundation.

Then wash your hands!

Yep, I was in high school. School closed and the tragedy of the VA hospital. This was before I joined the Morg.

There goes the toilet paper !

LOL!

A lot of residences are without power. FrontRunner (UTA Commuter rail) and TRAX (UTA light rail) have suspended service. At present, the SLC airport has suspended operations as well. There is a hazardous materials event (no evacuations) at a Kennecott warehouse.

Nothing else to report just now. We're sheltering in place with no place to go today.

The commuter rail is up, running a bit slower, but light rail service is down due to electrical problems. On Channel 13 news, a UTA official reported that TRAX may be operational within 3-4 hours.



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I have not been able to sleep for many days, due to anxiety and PTSD (the feeling of not being "safe", and that I'm going to die). I was able to calm down and get into bed at 5:00 am this morning, and at 7:00 am, the earthqake hit. It shook one grandchild off the couch, and all the kids were running around, in excutment, and a mild sense of fearful adventure mixed in with it.

I grew up in the SF Bay Area, too, and earthquakes were a way of life. They seemed to come in groups, and were as big or bigger than this one. Our town didn't panic, didn't disasterize about the future, never rushed to the grocery store to hoard supplies. They would shrug it off, and school would continue as usual. We didn't even have earthquake drills, but would just ride them out at our school desks, and someone would say, "Wow, that was a big one." We knew that the first jolt was always the biggest.

The Mormon presidency never sent any messages of faith or hope to us Bay Area Mormons. I have no sympathy for Mormoni's trumpet.

Calm down, people! Everyone has been doing very well with our other disasters, so far, so keep up the good work. People are more resilient than we think--especially children. We will bounce back. >^..^<

Oh no, there was another earthquake just now, 1:12, and it was long and strong! I would say a 5 or 4.9!

Breathe...where's a paper bag to breathe into?

>^00^<

Yep, another ...

Living in boring, stable northern Europe, I've never experienced an earthquake, even though I go to Lima, Peru, every year. I think I should probably count myself as lucky, but I'd like to feel a gentle one at some time in my life. The only problem is that you can't choose whether it's a strong one or a weak one...

Is it true that Moroni on The S.L. temple isn't horny anymore!?

I remember the San Fernando Valley quake of '71 too.

was standing at the checkout register at Costco in San Jose when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit! It was't fun

Hate to be Debbie Downer, but had this been an EQ on the main parts of the Wasatch instead of a smaller fault, there would have been massive destruction. Hopefully, this is a wake up call to people living or working in one of the thousands of old brick bldgs in SLC.