geological fault
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Earthquakes are common in the region, which lies on a major geological fault line.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025
The tunnel did not have an emergency exit and was built through a geological fault, a member of a panel of experts investigating the disaster has told Reuters.
From Reuters • Nov. 28, 2023
A seismometer deployed by a robot arm will act as an ear to the ground and listen for tremors produced when subterranean rock faces slip past one another on geological fault lines.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2018
This is because water pressure in the fault zone is important in controlling when a geological fault slips.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2017
Old Sandstone, who had seen nothing, tackled Simon on the subject of his geological fault; and Simon merely said to himself, as Dolores tightened her saddle-girth: "What the deuce are all these people up to?"
From The Tremendous Event by Leblanc, Maurice
