Denali Fault

[2] The steep north face of Denali, known as the Wickersham Wall, rises 15,000 feet from its base, and is a result of relatively recent vertical movement along the fault.

[4] Along the Denali Fault, lateral and vertical offset movement is taking place at a rate of approximately 13 mm/yr.

[8] During the afternoon of November 3, 2002, the water in Seattle's Lake Union suddenly began sloshing hard enough to knock houseboats off their moorings.

The resulting surface rupture was approximately 336 kilometers (209 miles) long, and it cut through streams, divided forests, opened chasms in roads, and even generated fault traces visible across several glaciers.

Because the earthquake released most of its energy on the sparsely populated eastern end of the fault, Alaska's major cities were spared serious damage.