The Tintina, a major geologic fault that extends 1,000 km northwestward across much of the Yukon Territory, was thought to have been inactive for at least 40 million years, but new research led by a ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once they began to slip, they supposedly resisted further movement, a property ...

Researchers at the University of Victoria found that the previously overlooked Tintina Fault could pose a hazard to the Klondike Research led by the University of Victoria discovered that the Tintina ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...