Sentence examples for geological fault line from inspiring English sources

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.

Running very close to the geological fault line, Wallace's divide passes through the Indonesian archipelago, so that islands only a few dozen miles apart are home to entirely different suites of creatures.

On February 17 2006, part of a mountain straddling the geological fault line beneath the Philippines collapsed, sending millions of tons of mud and rock plunging down on the village of Guinsaugon.

THE Highlands of Scotland are split by a long geological fault line, the Great Glen, which slants across the country from sea to sea, and is mostly filled with fresh water.

He flew us over the breathtaking Mojave desert and Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake in the US (believe me, that's large), pointing out the Hoover Dam, the place where Thelma and Louise went over the edge and a geological fault line you could actually see.

BEIJING — Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, left 80,000 people dead or missing, a growing number of American and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the calamity was triggered by a four-year-old reservoir built close to the earthquake's geological fault line.

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

There's a faint sense of imperilment (a hint of wells and throats gone dry) in the city's prosperity -- as there is in cities lying on geological fault lines or on hurricane-visited coastlines.

GLOVERS REEF ATOLL, BELIZE -- It's tough to go far wrong diving the atolls beyond the world's second largest barrier reef, off the coast of Belize, the happy result of eons of coral growth along giant geological fault lines, which have produced sheer, 2,000-foot 2,000-foot

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.

The dam's geological analysis is a complete fiction, claiming granite where there is none; the project's engineers have even contrived to erase a geologic fault line from a map of the site.