Which risk increases along strike-slip faults experiencing creep when a locked segment develops?

💡 Explanation

When a locked segment stalls creep, elastic strain accumulates because tectonic forces continue loading the fault, increasing the potential energy released upon rupture, therefore the magnitude of the eventual earthquake increases, rather than tremor frequency, geothermal gradient change, or offset propagation, each governed by different processes.

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