Which risk markedly increases as transform fault blockages prevent fault creep?

💡 Explanation

When segments of a transform fault lock, elastic strain accumulates because the blocked motion needs resolution leading to infrequent large ruptures to overcome friction. This causes overall higher earthquake magnitude, rather than shift in the origination depth of focus or tremors, which do not require total segment blockage, or tsunami since there usually not huge marine displacement.

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