Which seismological effect occurs from intermittent strike-slip fault locking?

💡 Explanation

Episodic Tremor and Slip develops because fault segments lock, causing stress to accumulate and then release gradually in non-earthquake slip events; therefore ETS occurs, rather than constant slip, because the fault does not have uniform creep.

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