Near subduction plate boundaries, which risk increases when fault locking intensifies?

💡 Explanation

Fault locking increases accumulated elastic strain; therefore, rupture during unlocking leads to magnitude increases seismic release; hence a greater tsunami because a higher moment magnitude earthquake, rather than aseismic creep occurs.

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