Which slip rate change causes increased magnitude earthquakes?

💡 Explanation

A temporarily locked fault increases stress, because elastic deformation accumulates rather than sliding continually; therefore, stored energy releases catastrophically creating high magnitude earthquakes, rather than smaller tremors of fault creep.

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