Wasatch Fault

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active fault geologic fault normal fault

The Wasatch Fault is a major active normal fault system in Utah that poses significant earthquake risk to the densely populated Wasatch Front region.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Wasatch Fault canonical	2

Statements (42)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	active fault ⓘ geologic fault ⓘ normal fault ⓘ
associatedWith	Basin subsidence ⓘ Wasatch Range uplift ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dipDirection	west-dipping ⓘ
evidenceOfActivity	Holocene surface ruptures ⓘ
faultType	normal fault ⓘ
formsBoundaryBetween	Wasatch Range ⓘ adjacent basin of the Basin and Range Province ⓘ
geologicAge	Quaternary ⓘ
hasSegment	Brigham City segment ⓘ Nephi segment ⓘ Provo segment ⓘ Salt Lake City segment ⓘ Weber segment ⓘ
hazardCategory	major seismic source in Utah ⓘ
length	approximately 240 miles ⓘ approximately 390 kilometers ⓘ
locatedIn	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States Utah ⓘ
monitoredBy	United States Geological Survey ⓘ Utah Geological Survey ⓘ
movementType	dip-slip ⓘ
nearPopulationCenter	Salt Lake City metropolitan area ⓘ Wasatch Front ⓘ surface form: Wasatch Front metropolitan corridor
orientation	north-south trending ⓘ
partOf	Basin and Range Province ⓘ Wasatch Front ⓘ surface form: Wasatch Front region
passesNear	Brigham City, Utah ⓘ surface form: Brigham City Logan ⓘ Ogden, Utah ⓘ surface form: Ogden Provo, Utah ⓘ surface form: Provo Salt Lake City ⓘ
posesRiskOf	ground shaking ⓘ large earthquakes ⓘ liquefaction in adjacent basins ⓘ surface rupture ⓘ
seismicHazardTo	Salt Lake Valley ⓘ surface form: Wasatch Front urban corridor
state	Utah ⓘ
tectonicSetting	extensional tectonic regime ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Wasatch Fault
Description of subject: The Wasatch Fault is a major active normal fault system in Utah that poses significant earthquake risk to the densely populated Wasatch Front region.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wasatch Range → boundedBy → Wasatch Fault ⓘ

Wasatch Front → locatedNearFault → Wasatch Fault ⓘ