The shape, size, and stress drop value for area (a) are set to enable outward rupture propagation (the energy release rate at the tip of area (a) must reach local fracture energy).
The BLASTN algorithm was run with the following settings: X = 150 (drop-off value for gapped alignment), q = −1 (penalty for nucleotide mismatch), and F = F (filter for repeated sequences), the rest of the parameters were at default settings.
For extracting polymorphic repeats, we applied the method described by Pankaj Kumar et al. with certain modifications (33), Orthologous parts among the chromosomes were searched using BLASTn using following set of parameters: E-value ≤ 0.001; X drop-off value for final gapped alignment = 200; and repeat masking filter = off.
Kanamori and Anderson (1975) proposed a typical stress drop value of 10 MPa for intraplate earthquakes.
The average stress drop Δσ = 6.1 MPa is comparable to a typical stress drop value of 3 MPa for inter-plate earthquakes (Kanamori and Anderson, 1975).
Drop value is on the same level for the all samples.
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