Which outcome occurs when stress rapidly accumulates along a transform plate boundary below a large artificial reservoir?

💡 Explanation

When stress accumulates and a reservoir load is applied, static stress transfer occurs because the water increases pore pressure, reducing effective stress, causing triggered seismicity. Therefore increased likelihood of earthquakes results, rather than fault creep, land subsidence, or geothermal enhancement, conditions for which are not created.

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