Utah
Candidates took the stage at Salt Lake Community College for Utah governor debate
SALT LAKE CITY — The candidates wanting to win Utahns vote for governor took the stage at Salt Lake Community College Wednesday night in debate.
Republican incumbent Gov. Spencer Cox, Democratic Party nominee state Rep. Brian King, and Libertarian candidate J. Robert Latham argued over a variety of issues including housing, power, education, transportation, and many others.
Two particular topics got candidates riled up and attacking one another.
Amendment D is on everyone’s radar as a judge decides to rule whether or it’ll go on the November ballot. Amendment D would override a Utah Supreme Court ruling on citizen ballot initiatives.
“This is deceptive, it’s deceitful, and it something that every Utahn should come out to the polls in November and vote against,” said Rep. Brian King.
“Representative King is right,” responded Latham. “The language that President Stuart Adams and Speaker Mike Schultz put on there is deceitful.”
Cox’s stance on the amendment wasn’t clear until post-debate with the press.
“I think on balance, it’s worth supporting but it’s close. I see why people are opposed to it,” he answered.
Another issue that got candidates stirring: the presidential election.
“Our current governor for years went ahead and said openly, I though commendable, that he was not going to support Donald Trump,” said King. “Then we see two months ago, a flip.”
“What I have done is dedicated my life to depolarizing our country. I’m going to do everything I can to help [Trump], to help my party, to help Democrats, to help us come together,” said Cox.
“What I heard is the gaslighting that we’ve been used to. The Utahns that are excluded from this conversation,” said Latham. “That’s responsible for why I’m on this stage.”
There are other candidates on the ballot who did not debate Wednesday night because they did not fit the Utah Debate Commission’s polling qualifications.
Candidates appearing on the ballot but not in the debate are Tommy Williams (Independent American Party) and Tom Tomeny (Unaffiliated). According to Ballotpedia, there are three others running as write-in candidates: Phil Lyman, Richard Lyman and Charlie Tautuaa.
KANOSH, Utah — The United States Geological Survey recorded multiple earthquakes near Kanosh Sunday morning, each of them having an average magnitude of 3.0.
The first earthquake, magnitude 3.0, was detected just after 12:30 a.m., with the epicenter located half a mile south of Kanarraville.
The second quake, magnitude 3.2, was detected around 5:45 a.m., with the epicenter nearly five miles south-southwest of Kanosh. This was followed by two more quakes in the same area, a magnitude 2.5 quake coming in around 6:35 a.m., followed by a third around 7:45 a.m, which measured at magnitude 3.3.
This has since been followed by another quake, measuring at magnitude 3.7, being detected around 8:45 a.m. The geographic location in the USGS report places the epicenter approximately over two miles south of the Dry Wash Trail, about six miles south-southwest of Kanosh.
FOX 13 News previously spoke with researchers at University of Utah, who said that earthquake swarms are relatively common. A study published in 2023 posits that swarms may be triggered by geothermal activity. The findings came after a series of seismic swarms were detected in central Utah, within the vicinity of three geothermal power plants.
The study also says that the swarms fall into a different category than aftershocks that typically follow large quakes, such as the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that hit the Wasatch Fault back in 2020.
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