Alex Rock, of Castle Rock Colo., has prosthetic makeup with a penetrating object coming out of his head during the preparation for the 2014 Great Utah ShakeOut at the now closed Grandview Elementary School in Ogden on Thursday, April 17, 2014. (BRIANA SCROGGINS/Standard-Examiner)

Clearfield Job Corps students volunteered to have moulage done for large disaster training purposes at the old Grandview Elementary School in Ogden on April 18, 2014. LINK TO SLIDE SHOW

OGDEN — Three hours before the biggest earthquake Utah’s never had, a small group of volunteers is gathering behind a boarded-up elementary school. Armed with plastic tubs filled with containers of makeup, paint, and other unappetizing goop, they prepare to transform a couple hundred students into “victims” of a natural disaster. LINK TO ARTICLE