The fault slip that happens in an earthquake changes the stress acting on other faults in the area, and may influence how close they are to failure themselves.

地震时发生的断层滑动确实会造成作用在该地区其他断层上的压力的改变，从而改变这些断层发生断裂的可能性。

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Nevertheless, if the Chilean fault surface were close to failure, those small waves could push it even closer.

虽然如此，如果智利的断层面接近崩溃，那些微波可能会促使它更快崩溃。

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On June 23rd a leading seismologist described one of Fukui's reactors, Tsuraga-1, as particularly dangerous because it is old and close to a fault line.

6月23日，一个重量级的地震学家指出福井的Tsuraga一号反应堆尤其危险，因为它已经老化，并接近断层线[1]。

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And,in fact,people live very close to the geologic fault that caused this earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

It started with a 20-minute ride in a festive horse-drawn carriage to Erhai, (roughly translated as "Ear-Shaped Sea"), an alpine fault lake situated close to Xizhou.

WSJ: Cormorant Fishing in Yunnan Province, China

For the second time Hingis serves a double fault while serving to close out the match.

BBC: Clockwatch: Hingis v Majoli

Apart from occasional skirmish, you'd hardly know his home is close to one of the Middle East's political fault lines, where the Israeli, Lebanese, and Syrian frontiers converge.

NPR: After Israel: A Lebanese Village Struggles