Seismic stress map (IMAGE)

Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

Seismic stress map

Caption

This new-generation stress map of North America includes the first view of the style of faulting across the continent as well as more than 300 new measurements of the direction from which the greatest pressure occurs in the Earth's crust. The background color indicates relative stress magnitudes, or style of faulting. (Image credit: Jens-Erik Lund Snee and Mark Zoback)

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Jens-Erik Lund Snee and Mark Zoback

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