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How the Salt Lake Temple's base isolation system will protect it from earthquakes

How the Salt Lake Temple's base isolation system will protect it from earthquakes

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The fault lines that run through the Wasatch Front suggest that a deadly earthquake will one day strike the greater Salt Lake area. When it does, work announced Friday could save what the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called "a stunning jewel in the crown of pioneer achievement" and all those who work and serve there.

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