A new assessment of the enormous Tintina fault suggests it has been slowly accumulating strain over thousands of years.

Seismic pressure is building along the Tintina fault line, stretching from Canada's Yukon Territory to Alaska.

Learn about the Tintina fault, which has been stirring for thousands of years and may hit the Yukon Territory with a major ...

The Tintina fault stretches 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) across northern Canada, crossing the Yukon and ending in Alaska. The fault is thought to have been dormant for 40 million years, but that ...

A major fault in Canada’s Yukon Territory, long thought dormant, has shown signs of recent seismic activity. A new study from ...

What if the earth under your feet was quietly accumulating enough energy to release a disaster of rare proportion in North America? Deep in the wilderness of Canada’s Yukon Territory, mounting ...

Canadian scientists have warned that an overlooked fault line could unleash catastrophic earthquakes across North America — ...

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 ...