The Tintina fault in Canada’s Yukon Territory has been believed to be silent for 40 million years. However, scientists say ...

If a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is correct, that town or one of many others in the region could be rocked by a major earthquake pretty much at any moment. The source of the ...

The Earth is always moving. Here’s a less comforting one: Sometimes it moves violently — and Interior Alaska might be overdue.

Is it possible for a fault line, silent for millennia, to suddenly awaken with catastrophic force? That is the question now ringing out among Canada’s earthquake scientists, in the wake of a shocking ...