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"So it is possible that the strength of faults and earthquake risk is affected by seismic events on the other side of the world."

It's one big cracked ball.

I would imagine that earthquakes could affect another fault anywhere on the globe, but I would imagine that sometimes they could decrease the chance of an earthquake along any given fault as easily as they could increase the chance of an earthquake.

[BunnySlippers]

That would be my guess as well. Earthquakes would rearrange everything ... some would get worse, some better.