Sentence examples for dangerous faults from inspiring English sources

Utilities often find out about failed transformers, dangerous faults or neighbourhood blackouts only when irate customers or safety officials call to complain.

The earthquake was considerably weaker than the two that killed nearly 20,000 people in Turkey in 1999, but it was a reminder that much of the country rests atop a lacework of dangerous faults.

In June alone, the report says, dangerous faults or poisons prompted the recall of 68,000 folding chairs, 2,300 toy barbecue grills, 1.2m space heaters, 5,300 earrings, 1.5m "Thomas the Tank Engine" toy trains and 19,000 children's necklaces.

The truly dangerous faults will likely not be so cooperative.

A surprisingly big quake arrives where smaller ones were expected, as in Japan; an unseen fault breaks far from obviously dangerous faults, as in New Zealand.

Rather, the culprit is typically wastewater disposal, where high volumes of water extracted in oil and gas operations is reinjected into deep basement rocks, where the bigger and more dangerous faults lie.

But a dangerous fault line has also been exposed within Europe itself.

I asked Schwartz whether it was right to call the Hayward America's most dangerous fault.

Dr. Thomas Heaton, a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey called the zone "the most dangerous fault in the United States," excluding Alaska.

At this point, Iraq's most dangerous fault line may be the oil-rich region of Kirkuk, which is claimed by Arabs and Kurds.

But earlier this month, when a story I wrote about a dangerous fault line in the Pacific Northwest hit the newsstands, the overwhelming response was alarm.