Which risk increases when bentonite clay along faults hydrates?

💡 Explanation

Increased landslide susceptibility results because fault hydration reduces soil cohesion via pore pressure increase, a process called effective stress reduction; therefore, slope destabilization increases rather than fault stress decreasing or seismic velocity increasing under such conditions.

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