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What is a fault line?

What is a fault line? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) The line formed by the intersection of the plane of a fault with the surface of the Earth
  2. (by extension) A minor split (in public opinion etc) that may develop into something larger
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Investigating a magnetic anomaly near a fault line created my most humorous experience.
It gives them a different status, I'd think, than some shoddily tacked together apartment house in the Marina, knowingly built on a fault line.
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.
This distinction mirrors a major fault line in ethics between what are known as consequentialist and deontological theories.
Questions have also been raised over the possibility of a earthquake fault line nearby.
These days, New Yorkers live like people whose houses are built on a fault line.

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