Mexico City, by contrast, lies hundreds of miles away from the nearest fault, meaning that it takes a minute or two for the wave to arrive.
That spot is "part of a fault network that connect[s] the southernmost end of the San Andreas fault with the Imperial fault," meaning stress along multiple faults might be compounding the earthquake-causing effects.
European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs), in use in Flamanville, France, were found to have a construction fault meaning they were unable to handle the required pressure.
These images show perfect lattice arrays without any considerable dislocations or stacking faults, meaning that the interfacial ZnO layer is of an epitaxial quality and that the individual ZnO nanorods are actually defect-free single crystals.
Both the 1968 Dasht-e-Bayez earthquake (magnitude 7.3, resulting in 12,000 20,000 deaths) and the Qayen earthquake were the results of strike-slip faults, meaning that the crustal blocks on either side of the faults shifted against each other horizontally.
That's an English translation of the French faute, meaning "fault, foul, misdeed, offense".
It would be ideal to be able to construct a uniformly k-vertex connected (or k-connected) network, which would be k-1 fault tolerant, meaning that it is able to survive the failure of any k-1 nodes.
At the microscopic scale, it is the normal stress applied at a contacting asperity that represents the actual contact area on a fault surface, meaning that the local stress can be significantly higher than the macroscopic stress, resulting in creep at the point contact.
That's because California law allows for "no-fault" divorces, meaning a spouse does not have to sue his or her partner for any specific grievance, such as adultery or abandonment.
The platform is fault-tolerant, meaning it is resilient to disruptions that could force a system down and loss of data.
Our protocol, namely hexagonal cell-based data dissemination (HexDD), is fault-tolerant, meaning it can bypass routing holes created by imperfect conditions of wireless communication in the network.
