2. Concerning something which is based on mistaken ideas: Jane commented, "Mary, your conclusions are based on false and incorrect assumptions."
2.Responsibility for problems, misfortunes, bad situations, etc.: Despite all of his faults and mistakes, Mike was still Elma's best friend.
People heard a report about the risk of earthquakes to towns that were built on the faults across the desert.
This report worried Sheena until she realized that the report was false because it was written on April 1; that is, April Fool’s Day!
A man who works in a "Seismology Lab" once said, "I can predict earthquakes."
Would that make him a faults prophet?
2. Responsibility for a wrongful act: It is Nell's fault that the toast burned.
3. An error or a mistake: Sam was told that he made a fault when he was completing the application form!
4. In geology, a rock fracture along which movement or displacement in the plane of the fracture has taken place: The city was built on a major fault line and has always been at risk when an earthquake occurs.
Sally went outside to take care of her flowers one morning when a sudden explosion took place in her kitchen because of some kind of electrical faults in her refrigerator that resulted in a severe fire in her apartment.
Faults can extend for hundreds of miles. Perhaps the most famous is the "San Andreas Fault", which is 600 miles long, from the Mohave Desert to the Pacific Coast, north of San Francisco. It was the sudden shift of this fault that caused the San Francisco earthquake in 1906.