Sentence examples for fault in which from inspiring English sources

The Chilean earthquake occurred along a thrust fault, in which most of the motion is vertical.

That quake, which is believed to have killed more than 200,000 people, occurred along a strike-slip fault, in which most of the ground motion is lateral.

The carmaker said this morning it was hoping to announce the exact number of its 1m UK customers whose cars will be recalled to check for the possible fault in which the accelerator can get stuck in a depressed position preventing the driver from slowing down.

The RMS value obtained in the last window before fault, in which the fault instant is the last sample, is saved.

In converting shear stress to differential stress, we assume a fault in which the angle (theta) is 30° (Kohlstedt et al. 1995).

Note that this impossibility assumes the most "benign" type of fault, the crash fault, in which one process simply stops to produce any output given any input.

The earthquake's epicentre occurred about 50 miles (about 80 km) north of the Bitlis Suture Zone, a complex geologic region characterized by rock folding and a series of three large northward-dipping thrust faults (a fault type in which older rocks are forced up and over younger ones).

The area around Lake Baikal is one of massive block faulting in which major faults separate high plateaus and mountain ranges from deep valleys and basins.

A type of fault activity called block faulting, in which the movement is predominantly vertical, began to form the valley about 30 million years ago.

It's a different story for faults in which the rocks get squeezed together.

However, for incipient faults in which fault steadily progresses over time and there is a changeover from normal operation to faulty operation, using discrete decision function does not reveal any evidence about the progress and depth of the fault.