Abstract
Strainmeters with high sensitivity over long periods have enabled the detection and identification of slow earthquakes: seismic events which produce records similar to those from normal earthquakes except that the time scale for the rupture process is considerably longer. Slow earthquakes provide a mechanism for stress redistribution before normal earthquakes. Stress concentration may take place just hours or days before an earthquake; if it did, this would affect prediction capability.
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Sacks, I., Linde, A., Suyehiro, S. et al. Slow earthquakes and stress redistribution. Nature 275, 599–602 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/275599a0
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