At https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2088671/ … the earthquake that struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsular a couple of days ago led to a tsunami wave depositing whales on Japan’s Hokkaido Island. Four of them. Might this explain the discovery of whale skeletons beaneath a glacier on an island in the Arctic Ocean? It may be dated a few thousand years earlier, or even tens of thousands of years earlier, but there are similarities. We are told whales can be stranded during tsunami events due to the swift and dramatic changes in water levels, and currents. As waves approach the shore water initially recedes from the coast – which can leave whales stranded on the tidal reach without enough water to swim away. When the tsunami wave itself comes thundering in the whales are thrown up onto the land.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/canada-is-breaking-apart-geologists-reveal-hidden-fault-line-that-could-unleash-devastating-quakes/ … presumably the author is thinking of something like the Rift Valley system – which is a much bigger fault with a long history of seismic activity. A gotcha headline – Canada is breaking apart. Hidden fault lines. On the map the fault line appears to be a continuation of the Rocky Mountain Trench Fault – but gradually fading away. The image at the start of the piece is not in Canada but is a geological land form in Turkey. Well known as an earthquake prone region.
Seismic activity has been recorded in the Yukon – raising concerns about potential earthquakes along the fault line. We are even told the fault divides two tectonic plates. It is only a few months ago we had the story that Eurasia and North America were being proposed as a single plate system – as it continues in the now submerged Beringia. Later, we are informed satellite images and LiDAR conducted by drones and aircraft have mapped the local land forms – revealing offsets in the Earth’s surface. It included the discovery of fault scarps – caused by vertical shifts along a fault line. Hence, no actual plate boundary, as such, simply a fault line. However, it is now thought the fault was active on several occasions during the last 2.6 million years ago.