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Official account of the World Stress Map (WSM) Project. The WSM is the global compilation of information on the present-day stress field of the Earth's crust.

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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 Publication Alert! A new open-access paper from the World Stress Map team uses data from 12 boreholes to characterise the stress state of Australia’s Beetaloo Sub-basin, highlighting the key role of lithology in local stress variability. Download Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.jr... #Geomechanics
Insights into the in situ stress field of the Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory, Australia: Lithology-driven stress variability
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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Excited to share a new open-access paper by Oliver Heidbach and Mojtaba Rajabi @geostress.bsky.social, marking the 40th anniversary of WSM project. Using 100,842 stress records, the study provides fresh insights into present-day global tectonic stresses. Download link: doi.org/10.5194/se-1...
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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Excited to share a new open-access paper by Oliver Heidbach and Mojtaba Rajabi @geostress.bsky.social, marking the 40th anniversary of WSM project. Using 100,842 stress records, the study provides fresh insights into present-day global tectonic stresses. Download link: doi.org/10.5194/se-1...
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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
For those who are curious about the #qld earthquake on Saturday morning here is an article in the @aunz.theconversation.com written by @deeninis.bsky.social and @mojtabarajabi.bsky.social - why does Australia get earthquakes when it isn’t close to any plate boundaries? Read to find out more.
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Why does Australia have earthquakes? The whole continent is under stress from distant forces
Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces they create.
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Mojtaba Rajabi @geostress.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Why does tectonically “stable” Australia get earthquakes? @deeninis.bsky.social, Abbas and I explain in our new article for The Conversation. theconversation.com/why-does-aus...
theconversation.com
Why does Australia have earthquakes? The whole continent is under stress from distant forces
Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces they create.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 19/08/2025
Australia is a long way from the tectonic plate boundaries where most earthquakes happen – but we can’t escape the forces they create.
theconversation.com
Why does Australia have earthquakes? The whole continent is under stress from distant forces
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International Seismological Centre (ISC) @iscseism.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Catch up with the ISC latest news with the Newsletter: www.isc.ac.uk/docs/newslet... Contents include: ISC contributing to World Stress Map; Celebrating Robin Adams birthday; RAS Award to D. A. Storchak; New ISC members; Papers published in Seismica; Remembering Anthony Hughes.
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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🎯 Updated. Expanded. More comprehensive than ever.
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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🎯 Updated. Expanded. More comprehensive than ever.
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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Passionate about geomechanics? There’s still time to submit your abstract in our #EGU2025 session: “The Present-Day Stress State – Starting Point for Research and Subsurface Engineering”. Share your work on this global stage! Deadline: 15 January: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
⚒️ 📢Paper Alert! "Impact of faults on the remote stress state" The paper investigates which component of the stress tensor is affected at which distance from the fault, using a series of generic 3-D models. doi.org/10.5194/se-1... @karstreit.bsky.social
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Impact of faults on the remote stress state
Abstract. The impact of faults on the contemporary stress field in the upper crust has been discussed in various studies. Data and models clearly show that there is an effect, but so far, a systematic...
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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
⚒️ #EGU24 Are you doing some stress or strain related research? We welcome all kinds of research from observations to experimental studies, and laboratory results to numerical modelling. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...
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World Stress Map @wsmproject.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
🧪⚒️ 📢Paper Alert! Contribution of mine borehole data toward high-resolution stress mapping: An example from Bowen Basin, Australia This paper represents the most comprehensive quality-ranked basin-wide stress map according to our database! @geostress.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
Stress map of northern Bowen Basin using 890 quality-ranked orientation of maximum horizontal stresses.Depth analysis of stress data in the northern Bowen Basin using 9,046 horizontal stress orientations.
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