10.5880/WSM.2025.002 Heidbach, Oliver Oliver Heidbach 0000-0001-8009-5422 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Rajabi, Mojtaba Mojtaba Rajabi 0000-0002-0114-3199 University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Di Giacomo, Domenico Domenico Di Giacomo 0000-0001-8472-8979 International Seismological Centre ISC, Thatcham, UK Harris, James James Harris 0000-0001-7183-2240 International Seismological Centre ISC, Thatcham, UK Lammers, Steffi Steffi Lammers GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Morawietz, Sophia Sophia Morawietz 0000-0001-7653-4410 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Pierdominici, Simona Simona Pierdominici 0000-0002-5368-4536 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Reiter, Karsten Karsten Reiter 0000-0003-4232-7426 Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany von Specht, Sebastian Sebastian von Specht 0000-0003-3735-9562 GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany Storchak, Dmitry Dmitry Storchak 0000-0002-1481-801X International Seismological Centre ISC, UK Ziegler, Moritz O. Moritz O. Ziegler 0000-0002-2288-2820 Technical University Munich, Germany GFZ Data Services 2025 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 Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany 2025-04-17 en Dataset https://www.world-stress-map.org 10.48440/wsm.2025.001 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.07.007 10.1029/2007TC002133 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.023 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.212.01.07 10.1029/92JB00132 10.5880/WSM.2025.001 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 Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences.

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 Earth’s crust from the WSM database release 2025 (doi:10.5880/WSM.2025.001). Further detailed information on the WSM quality ranking scheme 2025, guidelines for the borehole logging data, and software for stress map generation and the stress pattern analysis is available at www.world-stress-map.org.
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