These strong-motion recordings of the vertical (.06g), north-south (.10g), and east-west (.13g) ground accelerations during the Cache Valley earthquake provide engineers with useful data in designing buildings resistant to earthquakes. The instrument itself was owned by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and located at Utah State University.

1962 Cache Valley, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.7

Arrows show path of bricks that tumbled from the parapet of the Lewiston Drugstore onto the roof of the City Cafe in Lewiston, Utah. Luckily this cafe in Lewiston, Utah, was not open when ground shaking caused part of a brick parapet of an adjacent building to fall through the roof.

1962 Cache Valley, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.7

Luckily this cafe in Lewiston, Utah, was not open when ground shaking caused part of a brick parapet of an adjcent building to fall through the roof.

1962 Cache Valley, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.7

Many headstones in the Richmond, Utah, cemetery toppled or were twisted during the ground shaking.

1962 Cache Valley, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.7

This "waterhole" on the Logan-Cache Airport property is one of the springs in the Logan area that was regenerated during the earthquake.

1962 Cache Valley, Utah earthquake; magnitude 5.7

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