fracture vs faulting

fracture and faulting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fracture	Yes	No	Yes	No
faulting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fracture and faulting are synonyms defined as:

fracture and faulting: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

Other synonyms of fracture include break, fault, geological fault, shift.

fracture (noun)	faulting (noun)
the act of cracking something	(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
breaking of hard tissue such as bone