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1. Fault: Faults are fractures or fracture zones in the Earth's crust along which one side moves with respect to the other. A fault scarp is a cliff or steep slope that sometimes forms along the fault at the surface. [100%] 2023-02-19 [Structural Geology]
2. Fault: FAULT folt (chaTa'; aitia, memphomai): Implies defect, of less moral weight than crime or sin. It is the translation of chaTa', "error," "failure," "sin" (Exodus 5:16); of cheT', same meaning (Genesis 41:9, "I do remember my faults this ... [100%] 1915-01-01
3. Fault: The "culpa" of Roman law is treated to some extent under the heads of Accident and Bailments, the former dealing with torts arising from lack of care, the latter with the loss of goods or animals through the lack of ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
4. Fault: Fault, a failing, mistake or defect. In geology, the term is given to a plane of dislocation in a portion of the earth’s crust; synonyms used in mining are “trouble,” “throw” and “heave”; the German equivalent is Verwerfung, and ... [100%] 2022-09-02
5. Meers Fault: Meers Fault is a fault in Oklahoma that extends from Kiowa County to Comanche County. It is marked by a 22–26 kilometers (14–16 mi) long conspicuous fault scarp but the fault extends beyond the ends of this scarp. [70%] 2023-11-29 [Geology of Oklahoma] [Natural history of Oklahoma]...
6. Fault breccia: Fault breccia ( /ˈbrɛtʃiə/ or /ˈbrɛʃiə/; Italian for "breach"), or tectonic breccia, is a breccia (a rock type consisting of angular clasts) that was formed by tectonic forces. Fault breccia is a tectonite formed by localized zone of brittle deformation (a fault zone ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-20 [Tectonics]
7. Ventura Fault: [ ⚑ ] 34°18′00″N 119°09′00″W / 34.3000°N 119.1500°W / 34.3000; -119.1500 Ventura Fault also Ventura-Pitas Point Fault is an offshore and onshore fault system of Southern California, beginning around Santa Barbara coming ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-08-30 [Plate tectonics]
8. Chaman Fault: The Chaman Fault is a major, active geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan that runs for over 850 km. Tectonically, it is actually a system of related geologic faults that separates the Eurasian Plate from the Indo-Australian Plate. (Earth) [70%] 2024-01-02 [Plate tectonics]
9. Fault trace: A fault trace describes the intersection of a geological fault with the Earth's surface, which leaves a visible disturbance on the surface, usually looking like a crack in the surface with jagged rock structures protruding outward. The term also ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-08-31 [Seismic faults] [Structural geology]...
10. Fukozu Fault: Fukōzu Fault (深溝断層, Fukōzu Dansō) is a fault in Aichi Prefecture of Japan, which was responsible for the 1945 Mikawa earthquake. It extends some 28 km (10 km under the sea) to Nishio City. [70%] 2023-12-09 [Seismic faults of Japan] [Geography of Aichi Prefecture]...
11. Sagaing Fault: The Sagaing Fault is a major fault in Burma, a mainly continental right-lateral transform fault between the Indian Plate and Sunda Plate. It links the divergent boundary in the Andaman Sea with the zone of active continental collision along ... (Earth) [70%] 2024-01-01
12. Pernambuco Fault: The Pernambuco Fault or Pernambuco Shear Zone in northeastern Brazil is a fault radiating from the Trans Brazilian Lineament eastwards to the coast, a major geological feature. The Pernambuco-Alagoas domain, part of the Borborema Province, is primarily made of ... [70%] 2024-01-11 [Seismic faults of Brazil] [Geology of Brazil]...
13. Rosas-Julumito Fault: The Rosas-Julumito Fault (Spanish: Falla de Rosas-Julumito) is an oblique dextral strike-slip fault in the department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia. The fault is part of the megaregional Romeral Fault System and has a total length of ... [70%] 2023-10-08 [Seismic faults of Colombia] [Strike-slip faults]...
14. Jabuka–Andrija Fault: The Jabuka–Andrija Fault is a seismically active thrust fault under the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. A 2003 series of earthquakes near Jabuka island, the strongest reaching a magnitude of 5.5, was caused by movements along the Jabuka–Andrija ... (Thrust fault under the Adriatic Sea in Croatia) [70%] 2023-11-23 [Geology of Croatia] [Seismic faults of Europe]...
15. Aspy Fault: Template:Infobox fault The Aspy Fault (/ˈæspi/) is a strike-slip fault that runs through 40 km of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and is often thought to be a part of the Cabot Fault/ Great Glen Fault system of Avalonia ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-10-13
16. Nahlin Fault: The Nahlin Fault is a northeast-dipping thrust fault in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It forms a western boundary of the Cache Creek Terrane. [70%] 2024-01-02 [Thrust faults] [Geology of British Columbia]...
17. Hurricane Fault: The Hurricane Fault is an intracrustal seismic fault that runs along the boundary between the Colorado Plateau block and the Basin and Range geologic province of western North America. It is a 250-km-long, north–south striking, high-angle ... (Geologic formation in Arizona and Utah, United States) [70%] 2023-09-07 [Structural geology] [Geology of Utah]...
18. Nootka Fault: The Nootka Fault is an active transform fault running southwest from Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada . The Nootka Fault lies between the Explorer Plate in the north and Juan de Fuca Plate in south. (Earth) [70%] 2022-08-11 [Plate tectonics]
19. Guaymas Fault: The Guaymas Fault, named for the city of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, is a major right lateral-moving transform fault which runs along the seabed of the Gulf of California. It is an integral part of the Gulf of California Rift ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-29 [Plate tectonics]
20. Fault (geology): In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust result from the action of ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-02 [Structural geology] [Stratigraphy]...
21. Toroweap Fault: The Toroweap Fault of northwest Arizona and southwest Utah is part of a fault system of the west Grand Canyon region, Arizona, US; also the west perimeter regions of the Coconino and Colorado Plateaus. The Hurricane Fault originates at the ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-27 [Colorado Plateau]
22. Manawahe Fault: The Manawahe Fault line is a seismically active area in the Bay of Plenty Region of the central North Island of New Zealand with the potential to be involved with other faults in an Mw7.0 event. North of Lake ... (Active fault in New Zealand) [70%] 2024-01-01 [Seismic faults of New Zealand] [Taupō Volcanic Zone]...
23. Brevard Fault: The Brevard Fault Zone is a 700-km long and several km-wide thrust fault that extends from the North Carolina-Virginia border, runs through the north metro Atlanta area, and ends near Montgomery, Alabama. It is an important Paleozoic ... (Geological feature in the eastern United States) [70%] 2023-12-26 [Thrust faults] [Geology of Virginia]...
24. Fault indicator: A fault indicator is a device which provides visual or remote indication of a fault on the electric power system. Also called a faulted circuit indicator (FCI), the device is used in electric power distribution networks as a means of ... (Engineering) [70%] 2023-08-29 [Electric power distribution] [Electrical components]...
25. Chaman Fault: The Chaman Fault is a major, active geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan that runs for over 850 km. Tectonically, it is actually a system of related geologic faults that separates the Eurasian Plate from the Indo-Australian Plate. (Geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan) [70%] 2024-01-09 [Plate tectonics] [Geology of Pakistan]...
26. Kabaw Fault: Kabaw Fault is a fault in Myanmar. It was among those that ruptured during the 1762 Arakan earthquake. (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-02 [Seismic faults]
27. Fault (legal): Fault, as a legal term, refers to legal blameworthiness and responsibility in each area of law. It refers to both the actus reus and the mental state of the defendant. (Legal) [70%] 2023-08-30 [Legal terminology]
28. Montería Fault: The Montería Fault (Spanish: Falla de Montería) is a thrust fault in the department of Córdoba in northern Colombia. The fault has a total length of 202.2 kilometres (125.6 mi) and runs along an average north-northwest to ... [70%] 2023-10-18 [Seismic faults of Colombia] [Thrust faults]...
29. Fault tolerance: In engineering, fault tolerance is a characteristic of a system that can have one or more subcomponents fail without the entire system failing. This does not mean that the system has no single point of failure, but that at least ... [70%] 2023-06-09
30. Fault tolerance: Fault tolerance is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more faults within some of its components. If its operating quality decreases at all, the decrease is proportional ... (Resilience of systems to component failures or errors) [70%] 2023-08-28 [Fault tolerance] [Reliability engineering]...
31. Detachment fault: A detachment fault is a gently dipping normal fault associated with large-scale extensional tectonics. Detachment faults often have very large displacements (tens of km) and juxtapose unmetamorphosed hanging walls against medium to high-grade metamorphic footwalls that are called ... (Geological term associated with large displacements) [70%] 2024-01-12 [Structural geology]
32. Comparative fault: Comparative fault is a rule in admiralty law where each vessel involved in a collision is required to pay a share of the total damages in proportion to its percentage of fault. Some states also use comparative fault to reduce ... [70%] 2023-06-27 [Legal Terms]
33. Stacking fault: In crystallography, a stacking fault is a planar defect that can occur in crystalline materials. Crystalline materials form repeating patterns of layers of atoms. [70%] 2023-10-02 [Crystallographic defects]
34. Intermittent fault: An intermittent fault, often called simply an "intermittent", (or anecdotally "interfailing") is a malfunction of a device or system that occurs at intervals, usually irregular, in a device or system that functions normally at other times. Intermittent faults are common ... [70%] 2024-01-26 [Debugging]
35. Triple fault: On the x86 computer architecture, a triple fault is a special kind of exception generated by the CPU when an exception occurs while the CPU is trying to invoke the double fault exception handler, which itself handles exceptions occurring while ... [70%] 2024-01-22 [Computer errors]