1 : Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. 2  Irrigated land: The number of square kilometers of land area that is artificially supplied with water. 3  Population density: People per square kilometre, in 1999. 4  At this time the world average was 14.42.
A ground fault is an inadvertent contact between an energized conductor and ground or equipment frame. The return path of the fault current is through the grounding system and any personnel or equipment that becomes part of that system.
Fault line redirects here. For other uses, see Fault line (disambiguation) . In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock mass movement.arge faults within the Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic forces, with the largest forming the boundaries between the plates, such as subduction zones or transform faults. Energy release associated with rapid movement on active faults is the cause of most earthquakes.