Utah
Utah State Legislature taking action to stop gang violence
SALT LAKE COUNTY — From one shooting in downtown Salt Lake City on Aug. 10 to another at the Mt. Olympus trailhead on Aug. 3, there have been several gang-related incidents across Salt Lake County recently. Much of it is being carried out by minors, according to Sheriff Rosie Rivera.
“It’s an everyday thing that we’re dealing with nonstop,” Rivera said. “We’re dealing with a lot of juveniles who are being recruited by adults.”
During a Utah House subcommittee meeting Monday morning, Rep. Ryan Wilcox discussed a new bill that would hold these adults accountable.
“We all make bad choices, especially when we’re children, when we’re kids, and trying to go through that part of life, and in order to gain acceptance, either into an organization or frankly, just to make friends, sometimes kids are really susceptible to these suggestions and sometimes direct orders by people that they look up to,” he said.
The rise in gang violence, as well as more sophisticated crimes like theft rings, is something that Rivera believes all Utahns should be concerned about.
“We all live here, but none of us can predict when that’s going to come to our door or when it’s going to come to our car in the parking lot or our business,” he said.
Sheriff Rivera hopes this bill will keep more kids out of trouble and make our communities safer.
“We can start saying that people are being held accountable for recruiting these young kids into gang violence, and now they’re being held accountable, maybe that will prevent some of these kids from falling into that recruitment area,” she said.
Wilcox plans to introduce this bill during the 2025 legislative session.
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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