Well-recorded earthquakes up to magnitude 6.6 on shallow continental creeping faults produce fault-surface rupture areas similar to those of locked faults with the same magnitude.
Notes on verification
Directly corroborated by peer-reviewed primary source (Harris 2017, Reviews of Geophysics) and its underlying study (Harris & Abrahamson 2014), plus independent commentary (Chen 2017) and later citations confirming the finding.
Sources
- Large earthquakes and creeping faults (pubs.usgs.gov)
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016RG000539 (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- https://www.scec.org/publication/7747 (scec.org)
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017RG000565 (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)