Sentence examples for fault provided from inspiring English sources

Even if the foreseeability of harm is a condition of liability, sound principles of risk allocation place on the agent who is at fault in failing to foresee and take precautions against harm the risk that an unforeseeable extent of harm will result from his or her fault, provided that this is of the type that the rule of law in question seeks to prevent.

Real-time observations of a reactivated fault provide an option for monitoring of earthquake-inducing wastewater injection.

The growth fault provides good migration pathway for large volumes of oil and gas produced from the Niger Delta basin (Bustin 1998; Tuttle et al. 1999).

For the study area, it is obvious that the region east of the main fault provides a much greater potential for geothermal exploitation than in the west.

This alluvial deposit has been offset ∼ 10 m vertically by the eastern Big Pine fault, providing a latest Quaternary dip slip rate estimate of ∼ 0.9 m/ky based on a 50° fault dip.

The shear stress on these faults provided by the tectonic environment is characterized by a criticality parameter C > 0; this value must be exceeded by the pore pressure to trigger an earthquake.

And even Webster believes that "reputational rankings, for all their faults, provide a type of subtlety that you don't get in more objective measures".

Exhumed faults provide insights into the interplay among deformation mechanisms, fluid rock interactions and bulk chemical redistributions.

This slim volume, despite its faults, provides a crucial dissenting opinion in a world where the mere mention of Google (or rather, Google's money) can act as a conversation ender.

It has been shown that the priority given by the proposed classification tree to the faults provides better accuracy in the diagnosis.

These faults provide analogs for both natural and hydraulically-induced deformation in the productive Eagle Ford Formation – a major unconventional oil and gas reservoir in south Texas, U.S.A. – and other mechanically layered hydrocarbon reservoirs.