Do intraplate and plate boundary fault systems evolve in a similar way with repeated slip events?

As repeated slip events occur on a fault, energy is partly dissipated through rock fracturing and frictional processes in the fault zone radiated to surface as seismic energy. Numerous field studies have shown that core of intraplate faults wider average with increasing total displacement (and hence events). In this study we compile data thickness, internal structure (e.g., composition, host juxtaposition, direction, type, and/or number strands) plate boundary compare (within interior tectonic plates). Fault thickness show are anomalously narrow by comparison they remain regardless how much experienced or local fault. By examining scaling relations between moment, rupture length for ruptures, find given value an individual earthquake, earthquakes typically greater moment earthquake magnitude) than events. We infer do not process intact during faults. Thus, dissipate less meaning displacement, more manifested higher magnitude earthquakes. contrast, get increases, generating complex zones damage surrounding propagating linkage neighbouring structures. The geometry, has be consumed at depth reaches surface.