Our first Magna manuscript is now available on the AGU preprint server: "Evidence for a Listric Wasatch Fault from the 2020 Magna, Utah, Earthquake Sequence" Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10503691.1

Part of our Plain Language Summary: On 18 March 2020 a Mw 5.7 earthquake (1/3)
occurred beneath Magna, Utah. We analyzed the first ~6 weeks of seismic data following the mainshock and found that the aftershocks formed a shallow-dipping planar structure at depths of 9–12 km, implying that this segment of the Wasatch fault zone has a curved shape. (2/3)
At the surface it dips steeply to the west at ~70º, but as the depth increases the dip becomes progressively more shallow in our model. (Figure: Moment tensors for the mainshock and 8 large aftershocks were determined from inversion of regional distance waveforms.) (3/3)
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