fault line in English

noun
1
a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault.

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1. We're on a fault line.

2. In order to split this rock on the fault line, we're gonna have to drill to 800 feet.

3. If we don't put this bomb down in a hole 800 feet onto a fault line, all you're gonna have is a real expensive fireworks show.

4. Rochester is a study in contrasts, a medium-size city that seems to sit Astride the fault line where the new economy grinds up against the old.

5. Chief’s Island, the largest island in the delta, was formed by a fault line which uplifted an area over 70 km long (43 mi) and 15 km wide (9.3 mi).

6. An example of the distinction between a natural hazard and a natural disaster is that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a disaster, whereas living on a fault line is a hazard.

7. Also in geology, an asperity is some part of a fault line that doesn’t move that can create an earthquake, which is an evocative concept." Asperities is layered, soaked and stratified, and then peeled back upon its core

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