Answer:
The occurrence of this earthquake will have produced a
redistribution of tectonic stresses along and near the
boundary between the
India plate
and the Burma plate. In some areas, this redistribution
of stresses will be such as to shorten the time to the
next big earthquake compared to what would have been the
case if the earthquake had not happened. In other
areas, the redistribution of stresses will be such as to
increase the time to the next big earthquake. Once the
distribution of slip along the earthquake fault has been
mapped, it will be possible to estimate the areas that
were moved closer to future failure and those that were
moved farther from future failure. It is not yet
possible, however, to reliably estimate when the future
failure will occur in a given area or how large will be
the resulting earthquake.
