Which outcome occurs when a creeping fault experiences heterogeneous frictional resistance?

💡 Explanation

Episodic tremor and slip occur because rate-weakening friction patches along the fault will suddenly slip, causing both tremor and slow slip events, therefore ETS characteristics result rather than continuous creep, because resistance heterogeneity prevents continuous stable sliding.

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