A large earthquake involving slip on the shallow-dipping plate interface of a subduction zone.
Suppression of relative slip on part of a megathrust during an interval of plate convergence, producing a slip deficit and elastic deformation. GNSS, leveling and offshore geodesy constrain it through a fault-geometry and deformation model. A locking fraction is therefore an inferred kinematic quantity; it is not a direct measurement of friction or the magnitude of the next earthquake.

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