Question

Seismic gaps are places where scientists think that ________.

Answer 1

The answer is Faults are storing elastic strain. To simplify, seismic gaps are places where scientist think that faults are keeping elastic strain. In addition, scientists think that stress on a fault constructs up to a critical point and is then unconstrained as an earthquake. The seismic gaps are areas in which no earthquakes have occurred over a long period of time and therefore are probable to be under a high volume of stress.