Which outcome typically results when creeping along slow-slip faults reaches a critical stress threshold?

💡 Explanation

A major earthquake is likely because elastic Rebound overcomes frictional resistance accumulated at fault lines. Therefore, seismic activity is triggered, rather than other environmental processes, because creeping motion reaches breaking point.

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