[Island Chris]

The abstract at the link is interesting; we have had these sorts of discussions on Earthwaves before. I've likely posted that a subduction zone that just had a M9 quake is not going to have another one for some (long) time. But, parts of faults that break in earthquakes may not release all the differential stress. For example, the 2004 Sumatra M9.2(?) had very large slips in the southern few hundred km but not very much in the north.

The abstract is about the Nov 17 2013 Scotia Sea quake. I think we had a thread on old Earthwaves that both sides of the Scotia plate ruptures not to long apart:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...5/abstract

Geophysical Research Letters is an AGU journal so the paper will be available in 2 years.

Chris