Fault vs. Earthquake

Faultnoun

A defect; something that detracts from perfection.

Faultnoun

A mistake or error.

Faultnoun

A weakness of character; a failing.

Faultnoun

A minor offense.

Faultnoun

Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.

Faultnoun

(seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.

Faultnoun

(mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.

Faultnoun

(tennis) An illegal serve.

Faultnoun

(electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.

Faultnoun

(obsolete) want; lack

Faultnoun

(hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

Faultverb

(transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.

Faultverb

To fracture.

Faultverb

(intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.

Faultverb

To undergo a page fault.

Faultnoun

Defect; want; lack; default.

Faultnoun

Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.

Faultnoun

A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

Faultnoun

A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

Faultnoun

A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

Faultnoun

Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

Faultnoun

A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.

Faultnoun

A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.

Faultverb

To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.

Faultverb

To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; - chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.

Faultverb

To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

Faultnoun

responsibility for a bad situation or event;

Faultnoun

(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;

Faultnoun

the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection;

Faultnoun

a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;

Faultnoun

an imperfection in a device or machine;

Faultnoun

(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area);

Faultnoun

(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.);

Faultverb

put or pin the blame on

Earthquakenoun

A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.

Earthquakenoun

(planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.

Earthquakenoun

A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; - called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.

Earthquakeadjective

Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; startling.

Earthquakenoun

shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity

Earthquakenoun

a disturbance that is extremely disruptive;

Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in size from those that are so weak that they cannot be felt to those violent enough to propel objects and people into the air, and wreak destruction across entire cities.