Two days after the University of Utah Seismograph Stations (UUSS) staff were required to leave campus and work remotely, an Mw 5 7 earthquake struck the Salt Lake Valley near the town of Magna, Utah This event was the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in the Salt Lake Valley and the largest earthquake ever felt by most residents The timing of this event-at the start of a lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic-made the UUSS response to this earthquake an extra challenge Other factors such as a toxic plume caused by the ground shaking, inclement weather, and a mountain lion also impacted the work The response tested the continuity of operations plan that had been in place since 2007, response protocols, and communications with partners and the public Overall, the UUSS earthquake response was successful: A valuable and arguably unprecedented dataset of strong ground motions from normal faulting was generated, magnitudes and locations of thousands of earthquakes were shared in a timely fashion, unfounded rumors and general questions were promptly responded to via traditional and social media, and initial scientific results were submitted for publication © Seismological Society of America

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在 COVID-19 大流行关闭期间响应 2020 年犹他州麦格纳地震序列

在犹他大学地震台站 (UUSS) 工作人员被要求离开校园并远程工作两天后，一场 Mw 5 7 地震袭击了犹他州麦格纳镇附近的盐湖谷，这是盐湖地区最大的仪器记录地震湖谷和大多数居民有史以来最大的地震 此事件发生的时间——在应对 COVID-19 大流行的封锁开始时——使 USS 对这次地震的反应成为一个额外的挑战 其他因素，如有毒羽流造成的地面震动、恶劣天气和山狮也影响了工作 响应测试了自 2007 年以来实施的运营计划、响应协议以及与合作伙伴和公众的沟通的连续性 总体而言，USS 地震响应是成功的：生成了一个有价值且可以说是前所未有的正断层强地面运动数据集，及时分享了数千次地震的震级和位置，通过传统和社交媒体迅速回应了毫无根据的谣言和一般性问题，初步的科学成果是提交出版 © 美国地震学会