The stress-loading of faults to failure in earthquakes is driven by regional tectonics, but is also influenced by fault interaction during earthquakes,
PALEO-“STRESS” ANALYSIS FROM FAULT DATA Slicken-lines on a fault plane represent the direction of some relative displacement between the two
compilations, it was assumed, that patterns of stress orientation on a regional scale are more or less consistent within tectonic plates (Coblentz and
In addition, the slip vector for shear faulting is close to or coincides with the direction of the maximum shear stress acting on the fault (Wallace 1951; Bott 1959)