Sentence examples for unknown faults from inspiring English sources

That raises a worrisome question: How many major quakes are lurking in underestimated or unknown faults?

As San Francisco's suburbs spread east, the thousands of unknown faults that scientists suspect exist in the Bay Area carry potentially greater consequences for life and property.

They have already discovered several previously unknown faults, although the findings have not significantly increased the known hazard, said Jarg Pettinga, a geologist at the University of Canterbury.

In California, for instance, scientists have cataloged 1,400 faults, yet for smaller earthquakes — magnitude 6.7 or less — about one in three still occur on previously unknown faults.

The networks are validated for test data with unknown faults.

This broader setup would detect shaking from unknown faults, like the one that caused the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Opponents point in part to the discovery of a previously unknown fault about a mile offshore.

Scientists concluded that the liquids had migrated to a previously unknown fault, causing the quakes.

September's quake, along a previously unknown fault line, had unnerved locals.

But she said the amount of shaking was less relevant than its source: a previously unknown fault beneath a city that had nearly doubled in population in two decades.

The city had been considered to be less at risk than others — until the September quake occurred on a previously unknown fault.