On the stress dependence of the earthquake b value

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Evolution of b-value during the seismic cycle: Insights from laboratory experiments on simulated faults (2018, background): “(1992), Scholz (2002), including works showing that b-value correlates with the local differential stress (σ1 − σ3) at both laboratory and tectonic scales (Schorlemmer et al., 2005; Spada et al., 2013; Scholz, 2015).”
Fluid‐faulting evolution in high definition: Connecting fault structure and frequency‐magnitude variations during the 2014 Long Valley Caldera, California, earthquake swarm (2016, background): “faults is counter to the prediction based on differential stress alone [Wyss, 1973; Scholz, 2015].”
B‐Positive: A Robust Estimator of Aftershock Magnitude Distribution in Transiently Incomplete Catalogs (2021, background): “It has also been argued that b-value may carry diagnostic information about the state of stress on the faults generating the earthquakes (Amitrano, 2003; Gulia et al., 2018; Scholz, 2015; Schorlemmer et al., 2005; Spada et al., 2013).”
Rate‐Dependent Incompleteness of Earthquake Catalogs (2016, background): “Based on laboratory experiments, earthquake rates and magnitudes are expected to depend on the stressing state and history (Dieterich, 1994; Scholz, 1998, 2015).”