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The Hurricane Fault is an intracrustal seismic fault that runs along the boundary between the Colorado Plateau block and the Basin and Range geologic province of western North America . It is a 250-km-long, north–south striking, high-angle, down-to-the-west normal fault, running from about Cedar City, Utah southward into northwestern Arizona . The fault is named for the community of Hurricane .

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4-487: The 1992 St. George earthquake (magnitude 5.8), which triggered a damaging landslide, has been attributed to the Hurricane Fault. This article about a specific United States geological feature is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about structural geology is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1992 St. George earthquake The 1992 St. George earthquake

8-621: Is supported by a 1994 news article from the Deseret News and an official report from the Utah Geological Survey . A contemporaneous report from the journal Arizona Geology reported M w 5.5 from the University of Arizona and M w 5.9 from the USGS . Most of the force of the earthquake was directed away from the city of St. George toward Hurricane and Springdale . In

12-662: The quake. At 4:26 AM MDT on September 2, 1992, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurred along the Washington Fault zone near the larger Hurricane Fault about 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of St. George in Utah , United States. Reports on the magnitude of the earthquake vary. The University of Utah reported the quake as a M w 5.8 in their official report via the Intermountain Seismic Belt Historical Earthquake Project, which

16-463: Was a M w 5.8 earthquake that occurred on September 2, 1992 at approximately 4:26 AM MDT along the Washington Fault zone near the larger Hurricane Fault about 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of St. George in Utah , United States. The quake triggered a landslide that destroyed three houses and caused approximately US$ 1 million in structural and cosmetic damage to houses, roads, natural formations, and utilities. No people were killed by

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