Which risk increases when a fault's asperities fail?

💡 Explanation

Increased frequency of seismic creep will be triggered; fault asperities usually prevent continuous ‘stick-slip’ behavior – with smaller irregularities failing allows low magnitude/high frequency events rather than fewer high magnitude events, because strain energy accumulates across smaller locked areas therefore triggering more frequent motion.

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