World Stress Map 2025

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.

世界应力图（World Stress Map，下文简称WSM）是一套全球现今地壳应力场信息的汇编成果。该项目由学界与产业界联合推进，旨在刻画应力分布模式并解析应力成因。其于1986年启动，最初作为国际岩石圈计划（International Lithosphere Program）的子项目，由玛丽-露·佐巴克（Mary-Lou Zoback）牵头负责。1995年至2008年间，该项目转由海德堡科学院与人文科学院（Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities）承接，先后由卡尔·富克斯（Karl Fuchs）与弗里德曼·文策尔（Friedemann Wenzel）担任项目负责人。自2009年起，WSM由亥姆霍兹地质研究中心（GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences）负责维护。
所有应力信息均经过标准化格式处理与汇编，并基于全球尺度的可靠性与可比性标准完成质量分级。本次展示的应力图采用了WSM 2025版数据库（doi:10.5880/WSM.2025.001）收录的地球地壳A-C级质量应力数据记录。有关WSM 2025版质量分级体系、钻孔测井数据指南以及应力图生成与应力模式分析软件的更多详细信息，可访问www.world-stress-map.org获取。

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背景与挑战

背景概述

World Stress Map 2025是一个全球性地壳现今应力场的编译数据集，始于1986年，由学术界和工业界长期合作，旨在表征应力模式并理解其来源。所有应力数据经过标准化分析和质量分级，确保全球范围内的可靠性和可比性，覆盖全球范围并提供A-C质量等级的2025年最新数据记录。