Magna Earthquake Sequence, Utah Disasters Mission

Tracking Tools:
Disasters Event Products:
Area at risk and damage
March 18, 2020 Disasters Program Outreach: Copernicus Sentinel-1 guidance provided to
Disasters Situational
Area’s strongest Disasters GIS Coordinators Overpass; FEMA, USGS, Utah
Awareness: Creation
earthquake in years: contact partners at Utah ARIA catalogues of Emergency
of Disasters Event
5.7M, just outside of Emergency Management to offer Activation Page pre-events Management, Utah
Salt Lake City support for disaster management https://disasters.nasa.gov/utah-earthquake-2020 Geologic Survey, and
and Utah Geologic Survey National Guard
March 20, 2020 March 22, 2020 March 25, 2020
Support Request of NASA • Interferograms
Disasters Program detecting surface
Disasters: Through a long-standing
Activates Tier 0: deformation: University
pre-existing relationship, USGS
Distributes Rapid of Alaska/Alaska
requests a deformation map from
Assessment Survey Satellite Facility
NASA ARIA
Ground • Adaption to Situation: SARViews A37/A.33
movement Project
COVID-19 restrictions to
detected USGS field work Assessing Risk: NASA • Deformation
by UNAVO- necessitated remote SEDAC HazPop maps maps/interferograms
NASA sensing for validation of Exposed population and Damage Proxy Map
GNSS damage and and area of mine v2.0: ARIA (A.37), both
Network observations contamination produced manually
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 Photo of a damaged store front in Magna, UT.
Earthquake in Magna, Utah Credit Emily Kleber and Jessica Castleton,
Utah Geological Survey; March 18, 2020

Disasters Program receives an email

NASA JPL ARIA Damage Proxy Map
showing damaged areas near Magna Utah.
The color variation from yellow to red
indicates increasingly more significant
surface change. Created using modified
Copernicus Sentinel-1 Data, March 2020.
expressing appreciation from Utah
Emergency Management for
contributing to:
• Enhanced situational awareness
for the scope of the impact in
relation to their limited resources
due to COVID-19 response
• Understanding the movement of
copper mine tailings during
seismic events
The Disasters Program validates
damage assessment products by
referencing the website developed
by the Utah Geological Survey
containing geo-located photographs
and measurements

March 25, 2020 March 27, 2020 40 aftershocks M>3 thru April, 2020
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