Figure 3
From: Subduction age and stress state control on seismicity in the NW Pacific subducting plate
Distribution of the Gutenberg–Richter b-value. Estimates for earthquakes in the Kurile and Izu–Bonin subduction zones projected on the vertical sections corresponding to the black traces in Fig. 1. The b-value is inversely correlated with the deviatoric stress, thus lower (higher) values indicate higher (lower) stress.
