Campus seismologists have discovered that the Hayward Fault is connected to the Calaveras Fault, meaning that an earthquake could rupture on both faults and cause a more destructive earthquake than ...

Determining the cause of a problem. Also known as "fault diagnosis," the term may refer to hardware or software, but always deals with methods that can isolate the ...

A brand new 45-mile fault line has been discovered stretching along Canada's Vancouver Island, just north of the Washington state border, and may pose a tsunami risk to people nearby. The fault line ...

A long-overlooked geologic fault in Canada's remote north may be capable of producing a massive earthquake, according to new research. The Tintina Fault, stretching about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) ...

The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of critical components, such as CPUs, ...