10.5880/WSM.2016.001 eng dataset GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences datapub@gfz-potsdam.de http://www.gfz-potsdam.de Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences pointOfContact 2025-03-13 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:4326 World Stress Map Database Release 2016 2025-03-13 revision 2016-08-01 creation doi:10.5880/WSM.2016.001 Heidbach, Oliver GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany author Rajabi, Mojtaba University of Adelaide, Australia author Reiter, Karsten Technical University Darmstadt, Germany author Ziegler, Moritz GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany author WSM Team author GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences originator GFZ Data Services publisher The World Stress Map (WSM) database is a global compilation of information on the crustal present-day stress field. It is a collaborative project between academia and industry that aims to characterize the stress pattern and to understand the stress sources. It commenced in 1986 as a project of the International Lithosphere Program under the leadership of Mary-Lou Zoback. From 1995-2008 it was a project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities headed first by Karl Fuchs and then by Friedemann Wenzel. Since 2009 the WSM is maintained at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and since 2012 the WSM is a member of the ICSU World Data System. All stress information is analysed and compiled in a standardized format and quality-ranked for reliability and comparability on a global scale. The WSM database release 2016 contains 42,870 data records within the upper 40 km of the Earth’s crust. The data are provided in three formats: Excel-file (wsm2016.xlsx), comma separated fields (wsm2016.csv) and with a zipped google Earth input file (wsm2016_google.zip). Data records with reliable A-C quality are displayed in the World Stress Map (doi:10.5880/WSM.2016.002). Further detailed information on the WSM quality ranking scheme, guidelines for the various stress indicators, and software for stress map generation and the stress pattern analysis is available at www.world-stress-map.org. VERSION HISTORY: Version 1.1. (15 June 2019): updated version of the zip-compressed Google Earth .kml (wsm2016_google.zip) with a new URL of the server. Complete Heidbach, Oliver GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Senior Researcher heidbach@gfz-potsdam.de http://www.world-stress-map.org informtion pointOfContact crustal stress in situ stress tectonic stress crustal stress pattern EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > LITHOSPHERIC PLATE MOTION > PLATE MOTION DIRECTION EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > STRESS EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING > DATA SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords publication geophysics tectonics GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 publication CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 http://www.world-stress-map.org URL IsPartOf 10.2312/wsm.2016.001 DOI IsDocumentedBy 10.1029/92JB00132 DOI IsDocumentedBy 10.1029/2007TC002133 DOI IsDocumentedBy 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.023 DOI IsDocumentedBy 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.212.01.07 DOI IsDocumentedBy 10.5880/WSM.2016.002 DOI IsSourceOf 10.5880/WSM.EUROPE2016 DOI IsSourceOf 10.5880/WSM.Germany2016 DOI IsSourceOf 10.5880/WSM.GERMANY2016_EN DOI IsSourceOf 10.5880/WSM.ICELAND2016 DOI IsSourceOf 10.5880/wsm.2019.002 DOI IsSupplementedBy 10.1594/GFZ.WSM.Rel2008 DOI IsNewVersionOf eng geoscientificInformation Global -180 180 -90 90 http://doi.org/10.5880/WSM.2016.001 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Data Access - DOI Data Access - DOI information