Landslide

OGDEN -- Utah is famous as earthquake country, with the Wasatch Mountains serving as an obvious natural marker for the fault line that built them hundreds of millions of years ago.

The earthquake potential of western Oregon was a much better-kept secret until the past decade or two, said Scott F. Burns, a geology professor at Portland State University.

SALT LAKE CITY — Transportation officials say a massive landslide that closed a state highway in southern Utah will take months and millions of dollars to remove.

NORTH SALT LAKE — A July 2 pancake breakfast at a North Salt Lake park raised more than $7,500 to help victims of an area landslide, according to a news release.

FARMINGTON — Due to the 5.3 inches of rainfall in Farmington during the month of May, including snow on Sunday night, a third rock slide has closed Farmington Canyon road again.

HUNTSVILLE — State Road 39 opened at 7:50 p.m. Friday after a landslide shut it down for almost 24 hours.

HUNTSVILLE — A significant landslide on State Road 39 was unable to be cleared overnight because the land is still unsettled, officials say.

“There’s still stuff coming down gradually,” Weber County Sheriff’s Lt. Phillip Howell said. “It’s not traumatic or anything, but UDOT wasn’t able to clean it up because it is still settling.”