Scientists Believe That There’s a Geological Time Bomb Under Alaska – and It’s Likely Catastrophic

The Goal

The US military’s goal of digging this tunnel outside of Fairbanks was to study the natural phenomenon called permafrost, which is the term used to classify the type of frozen ground covering almost 85% of Alaska.

The Goal

Permafrost

This study was important because permafrost has an impact on 25 percent of the Northern Hemisphere. This permafrost generally occurs when the ground is at freezing temperatures for more than a few years.

Permafrost