Which risk increases when fluid injection lowers effective stress along a fault?

💡 Explanation

Fault strength decreases, reducing the stress needed for rupture; this is due to the mechanism of effective stress reduction by pore fluid. Because less stress is required for the slip, stresses release abruptly into larger induced seismicity rather than aseismically, therefore, increasing magnitude.

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