Which lateral effect results when groundwater pressure changes along a transform fault line?

💡 Explanation

Increased groundwater pressure can reduce effective normal stress on the fault, triggering slip and induced seismicity via pore pressure diffusion because the fault is already at a critical stress state; therefore, seismic activity increases, rather than metamorphic changes or plate divergence, because of the transform fault's setting.

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