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Crustal stress pattern provide important information for the understanding of regional tectonics and for the modelling of seismic hazard. Especially for small rifts (e.g. Upper Rhine Graben) and beside larger rift structures (e.g. Baikal Rift, East African Rift System) only limited information on the stress orientations is available. We refine existing stress models by using new focal mechanisms combined with existing solutions to perform a formal stress inversion. We review the first-order stress pattern given by previous models for the Upper Rhine Graben, the Baikal Rift, and the East African Rift System. Due to the new focal mechanisms we resolve second-order features in areas of high data density. The resulting stress orientations show dominant extensional stress regimes along the Baikal and East African Rift but strike-slip regimes in the Upper Rhine Graben and the interior of the Amurian plate.

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