A CONVENTION centre’s extension, built for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City earlier this year, straddles an active earthquake fault line according to geologists in Utah. They say their warnings weren’t heeded when the extension was built and that if a quake does strike, the building could be torn in two.
Roy Shlemon was called to the Salt Palace construction site to give a second opinion in 1999, after local geologist David Simon found what looked like a fault line. By digging trenches and examining the soil layers, they found that the ground had fallen by 1.5 metres between…
