3.9 earthquake shakes Wasatch Back: tremor felt from Park City to Heber and Hideout

HEBER CITY, Utah – A magnitude 3.9 earthquake rattled the Wasatch Back early Thursday morning, shaking residents awake from Park City’s Old Town to Jeremy Ranch and Heber City — the closest town to the epicenter near Strawberry Reservoir. The quake struck around 14 miles south of Heber, between Daniels Summit and Strawberry Reservoir, according to data from the University of Utah.

Several locals commented about the quake in a post on Facebook.

“I felt the bed shaking and above, me the fan’s pull chain began to sway,” a woman from Heber said.

Others in Black Rock Ridge, Midway, Hideout and Kamas said the earthquake woke them up.

Utah has several major fault lines. Among the most active include the Wasatch Fault along the Wasatch Front, the Hurricane Fault in Southern Utah, and the Needles Fault Zone in Canyonlands National Park.

The biggest earthquake in recent Utah history was on March 18, 2020 when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Magna,

No injuries or damage have been reported.