The study examines how earthquakes reorganize stress within the Earth's crust. It suggests that fault systems evolve into preferred, reproducible states as earthquakes redistribute stress through slip events. The findings are based on natural experiments that measure statistical distributions of stress indicators, though the precise mechanisms underlying this process remain uncertain.
How earthquakes organize stress
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