The Shia-Sunni fault line, with Syria currently at its epicentre, is certainly contributing, he notes.
Although on the same fault line, this earthquake was much less powerful than the previous one.
The mightiest of corporations and the mightiest of earthquakes-- there is a fault line.
The center line looked as if it was running over an active fault line.
This region is on a fault line and lots of buildings are built with that in mind.
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The trench is a highly active fault line running north from New Zealand towards Tonga and Samoa.
There will be a Democratic divide on Afghanistan, but where the fault line will be is fuzzy.
Iran straddles a major geological fault line, making it prone to seismic activity.
The heat fuses the two and excites the fault line enough to crack off any wafer sitting above it.
The political ideology known as Shariah is the fault line between Muslims who are enemies and those who are not.
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Where the fault line lies is in exactly how far we are willing to go to do something about it.
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In Turkey, a proposed nuclear plant is now in question, because a fault line ran right smack down the middle of it.
Saturday's quake occurred along the Longmenshan fault line, which was also the source the 2008 quake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The fault line between the north and the south runs deeper, however, than any other because it creates, in effect, two Indias.
But the real fault line in Iraq is between the Shia majority (roughly 60% of the population) and the Sunnis (about 20%).
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There has been a fault line in the EU ever since bureaucrats of Brussels tried to homogenize every aspect of European life.
The gap between rich and poor remains the country's biggest fault line.
The antagonism between the government in the Andean city of La Paz and its opponents in Santa Cruz is Bolivia's clearest fault line.
They are creating a new political fault line that is ripping through both political parties with the force of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The fissure rent by this plurality as it escapes partisan captivity will be the fault line around which a party realignment occurs in America.
Then, the new shares, like water pressing down on a fault line, will cause the earth to shake, driving down the market in a man-made disaster.
Geologists warn that the two earthquakes occurred on the same fault line, which may signal hyperactive seismic activity in the region, South China Morning Post reports.
Since Kluane lies on a major fault line, the rubbing of the two plates constantly drives the mountains even higher, so they rise at a rate similar to the speed of growing fingernails.
We saw the same fault line at the NATO summit in April that failed to offer a membership action plan (MAP) to either Georgia or Ukraine, further emboldening Mr. Putin to provoke the Georgians into an unwinnable war.
Political stability, a young well educated population and the rise of Asia as an economic dynamo have created a boom in one of the largest Muslim countries in the world, which also sits on the fault line between two continents.
It was along the same fault line that a devastating magnitude-7.9 quake struck on May 12, 2008, leaving more than 90, 000 people dead or missing and presumed dead in one of the worst natural disasters to strike China in recent decades.
Basically, this would be like a developer who is building homes along a fault line and only tests the durability of the construction up to a level 4.0 (light) earthquake when there is a decent probability that an 8.0 (major) may hit.
Starting with two silicon wafers, Soitec machines coat the surface of one with silicon dioxide insulator and embed inside it a thin fault line of hydrogen atoms anywhere from 100 to 20, 000 nanometers below the surface, depending on customers' desired wafer thickness.
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