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Scientists just found a massive earthquake threat hiding beneath Yukon
A long-forgotten fault in Canada's Yukon Territory has just revealed its dangerous potential. Scientists using cutting-edge satellite and drone data discovered that the Tintina fault, previously considered dormant, has produced multiple major earthquakes in the recent geological past and could do so again. These hidden fault lines, now identified near Dawson City, may be capable of triggering devastating quakes over magnitude 7.5, posing a serio…
The Tintina geological fault of about 1000 km long, located in the Yukon Territory, could present a seismic hazard.
‘Sleeping giant’ fault beneath Canada could unleash a major earthquake, research suggests
By Stephanie Pappas – LiveScience A major fault in the Yukon, Canada, that has been quiet for at least 12,000 years may be capable of giving off earthquakes of at least magnitude 7.5, new research suggests. Based on the amount of strain the Tintina fault has accumulated over the past 2.6 million years, it is now under an amount of stress that could lead to a large quake within a human lifespan, researchers reported July 15 in the journal Geophys…
In northern Canada, landscapes frozen by glaciations still hide the scars of an intense geological past. At the heart of this motionless setting, the Tintina fault crosses the reliefs of the Yukon for more than a thousand kilometres. Its millennial silence intrigues as much as it worries. Recent observations reveal that it has lost nothing of its ability to move. Behind this apparent inertia, the Tintina fault accumulates an invisible tension, r…
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