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 ...

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 ...

A network of fissures, known as the Wasatch fault zone, runs 220 miles from central Utah north along the Wasatch Front through Salt Lake City into Idaho, a region with as many as 185,000 homes and ...

U.S. Geological Survey geologist Scott Bennett stands at the top of the Twin Lakes Fault scarp while Ashley Streig, a geology professor at Portland State University, and her graduate student ...

A megasplay fault branches upward from the subduction zone, and in the event of "The Big One," would raise the seafloor, displacing a massive amount of water closer to the coast.

They know of at least 10 fault zones in Eastern Washington that are 40 miles or longer, according to Megan Anderson, an earthquake geophysicist with the Washington Geological Survey.

In the Japan trench bottom ~7500 deep, a 26 m high fault scarp that formed at 2011 Tohoku-oki megaquake was discovered during a manned submersible dive. It lies on the eastern slope of a ~60 m ...

This vertical cliff consists of soft mud deposited on the Japan Trench bottom and was uplifted ~60 m by the 2011 megaquake. This was the first time that the fault scarp of a trench-type earthquake ...

They know of at least 10 fault zones in eastern Washington that are 40 miles or longer, according to Megan Anderson, an earthquake geophysicist with the Washington Geological Survey.