Show WASATCH FAULT SLIP IS DOUBTED Based on r reports ports that the he earthquake earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake was felt more severely throughout southern Idaho than in Salt Lake W. W R B Landwehr geologist I of ol the American Smelting Refining Refining ing lug company expressed the belief that the quakes were not caused cawed by slipping sUpping of the Wasatch fault lault but by bythe bythe bythe the probable movement of other faults aul which parallel the Wasatch If It the quake had been caused by movement of ot the Wasatch h fault nult the earthquake would have been more severe in Salt Lake Mr Landwehr Landwehr Land Land- wehr said I Mr Landwehr explained that the i Wasatch fault system extends from a a point north of Ogden in a southerly dIre direction tion along the mountains into Arizona with the Hurricane and SevIer Sc- Sc vier faults fault as strands or branches of the Wasatch fault system He also explained that there are Bre a number of faults in Wyoming and ond southern Idaho Idaho Idaho Ida Ida- ho with north and south strikes which parallel the Wasatch fault system system tem tern and that movement of one of these faults faulls may have caused cawed tho the dis Apparent centering of the quake in territory north borth of Ogden leads me meto meto meto to believe that movement of another fault other than the W Wasatch atch fault caused the quake Mr Landwehr said uld Its t. t r j r or J |