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A new assessment of the enormous Tintina fault suggests it has been slowly accumulating strain over thousands of years.
The new study reveals more recent activity along the Tintina fault, which stretches about 600 miles, from northeastern ...
Seismic pressure is building along the Tintina fault line, stretching from Canada's Yukon Territory to Alaska.
A quiet threat has emerged in the far reaches of Canada’s Yukon Territory. The Tintina fault, once thought to be dormant for ...
A 2025 study has researchers warning that the Tintina fault line has been showing earthquake activity in Canada, prompting ...
A major fault in Canada’s Yukon Territory, long thought dormant, has shown signs of recent seismic activity. A new study from the (UVic) has brought attention to a newly identified seismic threat in ...
Canadian scientists have warned that an overlooked fault line could unleash catastrophic earthquakes across North America — ...
The Earth is always moving. Here’s a less comforting one: Sometimes it moves violently — and Interior Alaska might be overdue.
The Tintina fault has triggered many more earthquakes than was thought — and a build-up of strain poses a hazard.
Large or shallow quakes can rupture Earth’s surface, creating a linear feature in the land known as a fault scrap. This ...
Using high-resolution data from satellites, airplanes and drones, UVic researchers have uncovered evidence of large prehistoric earthquakes on a major fault line in the Yukon Territory, raising the ...
Over millions of years, the Tintina Fault has moved gold-bearing rocks from Canada into Interior Alaska. The Yukon River, as it enters Alaska, somewhat follows the trace of the Tintina Fault.