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WEST VALLEY CITY — Residents of a mobile home park in West Valley City hit hardest by the Magna quake five years ago say that is a day they will never forget.
It was 7:09 a.m. on March 18, 2020, when the 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit the Salt Lake area. The Western Estates park was just about a mile away from the epicenter in Magna.
"Man, it was something crazy. All of a sudden, we feel the whole trailer shake. It was scary!" said resident Karla Posadas who said everything inside the house came crashing to the ground. "It was the most scary thing that's ever happened."
"A bookshelf fell, a bathroom shelf fell, everything on the walls fell, and then the house fell," Noel Molina said.
Molina's mobile home was one of dozens on the property that was knocked off its foundation and damaged. Inside her home, large cracks could be seen along the ceiling and on the walls. Her home was deemed unsafe to live in for six weeks. Thanks to the state of Utah, residents say all their repair bills were paid for.
"Everything is all repaired; it's like it didn't happen," Molina said to KSL-TV. "Good as new."
Inside Candy Whisler's home, a large crack can still be seen across her ceiling and along her wall five years later. She says it's been repaired, and the home is safe, but the scar is difficult to cover up.
She says the miracle in all this is that no one was seriously hurt.
"We just got blessed, this whole trailer park; we didn't lose any people," she said.
