Sentence examples for a second fault from inspiring English sources

If one fault slips it might cause a second fault in the vicinity to slip earlier than expected, meaning you wait ages for one earthquake and then two show up at once (this bus analogy has no limits!).

If the receiving player chooses to take a faulty first serve, play proceeds as if the serve had been good; otherwise the server must serve again; if he serves a second fault he loses his service to his partner or opponent, as the case may be.

A second fault trace can be observed running parallel to the Kumering segment within the high mountains west of the Liwa Basin.

They lie south of a second fault line running from Ballantrae towards Dunbar.

They lie south of a second fault line (the Southern Uplands fault) that runs from Girvan to Dunbar.

Then a third fault in a row... but not a fourth.

A third fault in a row from Li... oh and another!

Finally, a fourth fault slipped, the sides of the fault moving as much as 6 meters past each other along a 50-to-100-kilometer segment of fault in just 15 seconds.

Then a third fault let loose; that one is about 150 kilometers southwest of the first and parallel to it, and slipped as much as 21 meters along a rupture zone about 150 kilometers long.

Davenport wins 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 Clijsters adds a second double fault to her tally, and a third, and that break back in the last game suddenly looks a lot less important.

A ninth ace and a second double fault later and she had was over the line, although the fighting Garcia saved three match points.