Modeling the Crustal Elastic Stress Field in Central Asia Based on Principal Stress Orientation Data
In this work, elastic stress fields are reconstructed from the discrete data on principal directions of the stress tensor in Central Asia. The method implies the optimization of the norm of deviations of the calculated and natural data and the continuity of the stress vector on the fault in the case when the vector is explicitly taken into account in the model. The fields of principal stress trajectories and isolines of maximum shear stresses are constructed for two regions. Based on the example it is shown that in the model that takes into account the fault, the stress fields in the vicinity of the fault substantially differ from those in the model where the fault is disregarded.