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World Stress Map

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

The coverage contains information on contemporary tectonic stress in the crust.

Description

To determine the tectonic stress orientation, different types of stress indicators are used in the World Stress Map. They are grouped into four categories: -earthquake focal mechanisms (58%) -well bore breakouts (27%) -in-situ stress measurements (overcoring and hydraulic fracturing,11%) -young geologic data (from fault slip analysis and volcanic vent alignments, 4%)

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Geology 70%
Provenance · 1 source records, 17 field assertions
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NASA Earthdata CMRC1214585927-SCIOPS15 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3705enrichment · NASA CMRtaxonomy-embedding@1.1.0title+keywords+description (70%)
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/earthquakes/earthquake-magnitude-intensitysource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/earthquakes/earthquake-occurrencessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/earthquakes/earthquake-predictionssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/plate-tectonicssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/plate-tectonics/fault-movementsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/plate-tectonics/foldssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/plate-tectonics/plate-boundariessource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/plate-tectonics/strainsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/plate-tectonics/stresssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-providedsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0