Natural disasters are not part of the normal Grand Valley culture, but still, I couldn't help but wonder which is more likely to occur in Grand Junction, an earthquake or a tornado.
Some residents in Garfield County around New Castle and Silt were a little shaky Monday (January 30), but it wasn't because of a wild weekend. Those shakes came from an earthquake.
The USGS has since downgraded the magnitude of the earthquake to a 3.9. The USGS is reporting that there was an earthquake thirty-five miles east south-east of Moab, UT -- people are saying they could feel it here in Grand Junction.