Caption: Cartoon block diagrams show how different stress orientations cause different types of movement in the crust. Each arrow indicates a different stress orientation where SHmax is the maximum horizontal stress, Shmin is the minimum horizontal stress and Sv is the vertical stress. The orientation SHmax to the other stresses and the relative magnitude of each stress determines the style of faulting likely to occur in a given region. Credit: World Stress Map Team, 2016 (CC BY 4.0) from World Stress Map Database.

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Caption: Cartoon block diagrams show how different stress orientations cause different types of movement in the crust. Each arrow indicates a different stress orientation where SHmax is the maximum horizontal stress, Shmin is the minimum horizontal stress and Sv is the vertical stress. The orientation SHmax to the other stresses and the relative magnitude of each stress determines the style of faulting likely to occur in a given region. Credit: World Stress Map Team, 2016 (CC BY 4.0) from World Stress Map Database.

Caption: Cartoon block diagrams show how different stress orientations cause different types of movement in the crust. Each arrow indicates a different stress orientation where SHmax is the maximum horizontal stress, Shmin is the minimum horizontal stress and Sv is the vertical stress. The orientation SHmax to the other stresses and the relative magnitude of each stress determines the style of faulting likely to occur in a given region. Credit: World Stress Map Team, 2016 (CC BY 4.0) from World Stress Map Database.

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