Sentence examples for geological fault from inspiring English sources

It was built over a geological fault.

He added: "It's like you live on a geological fault, and you never really know when the earthquake is coming".

Hugo Arvizú, a spokesman for Guatemala's disaster relief commission, said the landslide was caused by a local geological fault.

A scientist hoping one day to predict earthquakes by observing ants in colonies situated on geological fault lines.

Fear about a natural-gas disaster is compounded in the county because the area lies atop a geological fault.

The second: a giant metal slab, sent crashing from high orbit into a major geological fault line, releasing a tsunami that drowns the world's coastlines.

Like geological fault lines, the fissures in the world economic system are more hidden and widespread than many realize, he says.

The earthquake in Japan, which triggered the tsunami on 11 March, arose from a geological fault that was not thought to be capable of releasing such devastating energies.

The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 in the Indian Ocean was triggered by a massive release of energy on a geological fault.

The geological fault-line between them has seen 13 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or higher since 1973, as well as the single biggest tremor in recorded history, a magnitude 9.5 quake that struck Valdivia in 1960.

But beneath them sits a geological fault-line.