Earthquake scaling laws for creeping and non‐creeping faults

The dependence of the summed moment release on the fault dimension differs between non‐creeping faults and creeping faults or volcanic regions. This can be attributed to different earthquake scaling laws. The number N of events with fault length L scales for non‐creeping faults as N(L' ∼ L −2 and for creeping faults as N(L' ∼ L −3 . This difference offers a means for mapping the distribution of creep in the seismogenic crust.