fault
fracture or discontinuity in rock across which there is displacement
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fault
Summary
fault ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,592 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- fault is made of rock[2].
- fault is a type of fracture[3].
- fault's Commons category is recorded as Faults[4].
- fault comprises footwall[5].
- fault comprises hanging wall[6].
- fault's has cause is recorded as mechanical stress[7].
- fault's has cause is recorded as earthquake[8].
- fault's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Seismic faults[9].
- fault's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10].
- fault's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
- fault's described by source is recorded as Kazakhstan. National encyclopedia[12].
- fault's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox fault[13].
- fault's manifestation of is recorded as rock[14].
- fault's main Wikidata property is recorded as P5095[15].
- fault's equivalent class is recorded as https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/geologicfault/Fault[16].
- fault's different from is recorded as Q12884086[17].
- fault's studied by is recorded as structural geology[18].
- fault's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19].
- fault's P14541 is recorded as 35b2Mj[20].
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Definition and Type
fault is a type of fracture[3].
Use and Application
Components include footwall[5] and hanging wall[6].
Why It Matters
fault ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,592 views/month).[1] fault has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] fault is known by 108 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]