11.   The major fault with sales taxes and VATs is that they hit low-income families harder than high-income families, which tend to consume less of their income.

12.   The refinery lies along a major fault line.

13.   The twin hazards of life in the Golden State, earthquakes and freeways, converge in a major fault line between Southern California and Northern California attitudes.

14.   There are two major geologic faults near Metzamor as well as many minor ones.

15.   Tokyo is highly vulnerable to quakes because several major faults lie near the city.

16.   To various degrees, attitudes toward the Communist era remain a major fault line.

17.   Two of the studies used different methods to calculate the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes that could be expected on six major fault systems under the Los Angeles region.

18.   Using information once jealously guarded by oil and gas companies, scientists have identified a major new fault under downtown Los Angeles.

19.   With five major geological fault lines buried in it, the caldera has a much more widespread effect in the Northern Rockies than was previously thought, they say.

20.   Without a major fault, the chances of a strong earthquake are less likely, said Seth Moran, a UW seismologist who researched conditions around Mount Rainier.