subfault

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ fault

Noun

subfault (plural subfaults)

1. A subsidiary fault
   • 2016, Randall J. LeVeque, Knut Waagan, Frank I. González, Donsub Rim, Guang Lin, “Generating Random Earthquake Events for PTHA”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We present an approach to defining a probability distribution based on subdividing the fault geometry into many subfaults and prescribing a desired covariance matrix relating slip on one subfault to slip on any other subfault.