10.5880/WSM.2016.002 Heidbach, Oliver 0000-0001-8009-5422 GFZ German Research Centre of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Rajabi, Mojtaba 0000-0002-0114-3199 University of Adelaide, Australia Reiter, Karsten 0000-0003-4232-7426 Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Ziegler, Moritz GFZ Data Services 2016 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 geophysics tectonics GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Heidbach, Oliver GFZ German Research Centre of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany 2016-08-01 Dataset http://www.world-stress-map.org 10.1029/2007TC002133 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.023 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.212.01.07 10.1029/92JB00132 10.5880/WSM.2016.001 CC BY 4.0 The World Stress Map (WSM) 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 stress map displays A-C quality stress data records of the upper 40 km of the Earth’s crust from the WSM database release 2016 (doi:10.5880/WSM.2016.001). Focal mechanism solutions determined as being potentially unreliable (labelled as Possible Plate Boundary Events in the database) are not displayed. 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 http://www.world-stress-map.org.
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