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Yellowstone Supervolcano Earthquake Swarm Now One of Biggest on Record, With Over 2,300 Tremors
Newsweek   01 September 2017   USA   Utah  
View of the Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
<p>An ongoing earthquake swarm at Yellowstone volcano is now one of the biggest ever recorded, with over 2,300 tremors since it began in June.<br>As of August 30, 2,357 earthquakes had been recorded. The most powerful in recent weeks was magnitude 3.3; it ...
State Engineers: Utah’s dams are safe
FOX13 Salt Lake City   14 February 2017   USA   Utah  
<p>SALT LAKE CITY -- US dams were given a "D" grade by the American Society of Civil Engineers.</p><p><br>“We're looking for any real kinds of signs of deterioration. Is the concrete falling apart? Is there some sort of crack we haven't seen before? Is there ...
How a huge landslide shaped Zion National Park
Phys Org   26 May 2016   USA   Utah  
This view of Zion Canyon in Utah's Zion National Park shows the flat valley floor created when part of the peak named the Sentinel collapsed in a gigantic landslide.
<p>A Utah mountainside collapsed 4,800 years ago in a gargantuan landslide known as a "rock avalanche," creating the flat floor of what is now Zion National Park by damming the Virgin River to create a lake that existed for 700 years.</p> <p> </p>
In Utah, 'Possible Turning Point' in Fight to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground
CommonDreams   17 November 2015   USA   Utah  
"Climate activists, Indigenous leaders and others are all coalescing around the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground in order to prevent catastrophic climate change," says 350.org's Jason Kowalski. (Photo: WildEarth Guardians/Twitter)
<p>Facing public uprising, the US Bureau of Land Management postpones auction of 73,000 acres of publicly owned oil and gas resources in Utah</p> <p>Where environmentalists and Indigenous activists expected to protest on Tuesday morning, they celebrated instead, ...
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Weird Pig-Nosed Turtle from Dinosaur Era Found in Utah
News Discovery   22 October 2015   USA   Utah  
Shown is an artist’s depiction of the turtle Arvinachelys goldeni as it would have appeared in life 76 milion years ago in southern Utah.
<p>"It's one of the weirdest turtles that ever lived."</p><p>That was the assessment of University of Texas at Austin doctoral student Joshua Lively, in a statement about a strange new species of turtle that had a pig-like nose and lived 76 million years ago.</p ...