geological fault

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The tunnel did not have an emergency exit and was built through a geological fault, a member of a panel of experts investigating the disaster told Reuters on Friday.

From Reuters • Nov. 27, 2023

A seismometer deployed by a robot arm will act as an ear to the ground and listen for tremors produced when subterranean rock faces slip past one another on geological fault lines.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2018

This is because water pressure in the fault zone is important in controlling when a geological fault slips.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2017

East Africa's Great Rift Valley runs along a geological fault line but major earthquakes there are rare.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2016

The site of this Casal Nasciar is peculiar, being upon the summit of a great geological "fault," of which there are two or three striking examples in the group.

From The Story of Malta by Ballou, Maturin Murray