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Phone: 435–649–9014 Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday County, rest of northern Utah wakes to quake There were no reports of damage or injuries in the area from tremor ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Wednesday morning, former Summit County historian NaVee Vernon was at home when she thought she heard someone at the door. When she got up to answer, she noticed the light swinging across a table in a way it never had before. It startled her and her dog both. “My dog was looking at the light, barking. I thought I had a ghost, to tell you the truth,” Vernon said, laughing. An earthquake shook Summit County Wednesday around 7:10 a.m. along with the rest of Northern Utah, emanating from an epicenter about 10 miles west of Salt Lake City in Magna. The magnitude 5.7 quake was “moderate to large” as seismic activity goes, according to Christopher DuRoss, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. There were reports of damage to buildings in the Salt Lake Valley, but structures in Summit County appeared to emerge unscathed, said Robert Taylor, Summit County’s chief building official. Taylor responded Wednesday morning to check three of the county’s most critical facilities, the Sheldon Richins Building in Kimball Junction, the Justice Center near Silver Creek and the Health Department at Quinn’s Junction. “We just didn’t find anything,” Taylor said. “No indication that our buildings up there suffered any damage.” The county’s Public Works Department sent employees to check infrastructure around the county after the earthquake, but department head Derrick Radke reported they found no issues with the roads and bridges. The Summit County Sheriff’s Office fielded 15 to 20 calls immediately after the earthquake, Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright said, with no reports of injuries or damage. “Mostly just calling to say, ‘Hey, I felt an earthquake,’” Wright said. “Some asked if we’re going to have another one.” Wright said the most important thing for people to do in an earthquake is to find a safe spot and stay away from windows, adding that getting underneath a sturdy piece of furniture like a table is advisable. It’s also important that people check their homes after a quake has subsided for possible dangers like broken or leaking gas mains or water lines. Wright said it’s important people are prepared for emergencies like earthquakes with ample food and supplies and that it’s a good idea to have equipment like fire extinguishers in working order in case a quake causes further damage. He added that experts warn people not to go outside during an earthquake until it’s safe. Phil Kirk, a captain with the Park City Police Department, said early Wednesday the department had not received any reports of damage or injuries. There were reports of damage closer to the earthquake’s epicenter in Salt Lake County and power outages in several areas of the Salt Lake Valley, but Rocky Mountain Power did not report any outages in Summit County associated with the quake. According to a social media post from Summit County Wednesday morning, the county had surveyed special service districts and municipalities for damage to critical infrastructure and no major issues were reported. DuRoss, the geologist, said there Continued from A-1 East Side impacted “We’re truly a mom-and-pop business,” he said. “We had to let everybody go.” Across the street from the diner, at Ken’s Kash Store, a small general store, cashier Tonya Vanzalinge reported that business was going well but that employees had stepped up store cleaning and that everyone was taking precautions. She said the store was out of milk and eggs and toilet paper and that it would take steps to limit how much people could buy when they did receive a shipment. The store was anticipating a roughly 12-hour delay in receiving its order. “I think people are taking this pretty calmly,” Vanzalinge said. “More people want to help other people. ... We have a good community here. They’re being really good.” Oakley Mayor Wade Woolstenhulme said things in the city were pretty normal, considering the circumstances, and that Wednesday’s earthquake in Magna, which was felt throughout Summit County, might have contributed to a sense of fear Continued from A-1 Mayor addresses crisis your peers, but take a deep breath, soak it up, get caught up on all the things we haven’t done in life and reflect,” Beerman said. The mayor continued that people in Park City have a chance to consider PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO The Mirror Lake Station continues to offer its award-winning donuts, though with changed procedures amid the coronavirus outbreak. more than the coronavirus has. “We’re doing good, we’re doing good,” Woolstenhulme said. “If anything, people need to take things a little more serious.” Oakley, Francis and Kamas have each passed local emergency declarations that allow the municipalities to qualify for state and federal aid and ease some restrictions on operations like holding open meetings. In Hoytsville, March 15 was the first Sunday in a long time the Hoytsville Second Ward hadn’t gathered to worship at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meeting house except when something like a particularly bad snowstorm prevented travel, according to bishop Samuel Donaldson. “I don’t get the sense of fear from the community or from our ward, just a sense of surprise that it’s being taken as serious as it has,” Donaldson said. “I think we’re all being respectful, want to take it seriously, not take it lightly. Surprised everything shutting down as it has.” The Foodtown in Kamas was restricting patrons from purchasing more than two of any item, and Wood- the future as the community emerges from the crisis. “A month ago, it felt like things were racing out of control, and now we have a moment to catch our breath, to think about it. And while we’re hunkered down and you have a lot of time to ponder, I would encourage everyone to start thinking about what they want things to look like when we reboot. Because soon enough we’ll be rebooting and rebuilding, and this is always an opportunity. When you have a setback like this, it’s a time to rethink how you want to behave, what you want to do, what your priorities are going to be and build on those,” he said. Continued from A-1 Steep drop projected and shuttles. The work force, in turn, supports numerous other businesses important to the everyday lives of people who reside in the community. The steep drop in business will eventually also be reflected in private-sector #406 Silver Strike Lodge 8902 Empire Club Drive Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e 4 B D | 5 BA | 2, 255 SQ. 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The region is seismically active, DuRoss said. “Reno is moving apart from Salt Lake City horizontally,” he explained. There is ample historical evidence of large seismic activity — magnitude 6.5 or above — which is often strong enough to disrupt the earth’s surface. Large earthquakes occur infrequently, DuRoss said, tending to come thousands of years apart. According to the University of Utah, there is a 57% probability that a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake will occur in the Wasatch Front region in the next 50 years. land resident Tom Clyde reported store shelves were bare. “The entire frozen veggie selection is down to okra,” Clyde wrote in an email. “Even the lima beans are sold out.” The toilet paper stash appeared intact for the moment, he added. Kristin Wade owns Mirror Lake Station, the gas station in Kamas that sells award-winning donuts. She said she’s developed protocols in recent days to return the business to normalcy like taking everything out of cases and having employees retrieve the donuts. “For the most part the community’s been awesome, have people come in, know procedures,” Wade said. “For the most part, people have been great, not panicking, said they’d die without their fountain drink and donut to get the morning started.” Katie Stellpflug owns Artique, an art gallery in Kamas. She said things have been slow but that she’s planning to stay open, though she’s careful to limit crowds to fewer than 10 people and is considering canceling an upcoming artist event. “We reopen again tomorrow and I don’t know if I should be open or not,” Stellpflug said Wednesday. “I’d just encourage people who can support the local economy any way you can — you hear about buying gift cards and things like that — it’s helpful at this time to help keep us afloat in the future, but I know that’s a hard ask for people in the community who might be out of work.” and public-sector budgets. The private sector will be expected to need to adjust upcoming budgets based on the ski season’s numbers. A drop in tax receipts important to public bodies like City Hall will also need to be considered as those budgets are crafted. Malone said there are encouraging signals for the rest of the year, including solid bookings for the summer, the rescheduling of some meetings and conventions to the fall and the possibility that ski vacations planned this season being delayed until the next one. Malone also said he hopes the solid numbers through February provide a bridge for businesses through the drop late in the season. |