2024-03-29T15:48:52Zhttp://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oaioai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:62192019-10-25T09:24:08ZDOIDBDOIDB.WSM
10.5880/WSM.2016.002
World Stress Map 2016
Heidbach, Oliver; Rajabi, Mojtaba; Reiter, Karsten; Ziegler, Moritz
World Stress Map 2016
2016
Potsdam, Germany
GFZ Data Services
http://dx.doi.org/10.5880/WSM.2016.002
EARTH SCIENCE
SOLID EARTH
TECTONICS
PLATE TECTONICS
STRESS
EARTH SCIENCE
SOLID EARTH
TECTONICS
PLATE TECTONICS
LITHOSPHERIC PLATE MOTION
PLATE MOTION DIRECTION
EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES
DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING
DATA SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL
geoscientificInformation
tectonics
geophysics
crustal stress
in situ stress
tectonic stress
crustal stress pattern
-90
90
-180.0000
180.0000
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
GFZ
DATA CENTER CONTACT
Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
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.
DIF
9.8.2