“…Knowledge of the in-situ stress is also essential for the understanding of geodynamic processes such as global plate tectonics and earthquakes (Hardebeck, 2017;Harris, 1998;King et al, 1994;Richardson, 1992;Scholz, 1998;Steinberger et al, 2001; as well as to mitigate induced seismicity (Hakimhashemi et al, 2014b;Gaucher et al, 2015;Segall and Fitzgerald, 1998;Zang et al, 2013). The stress evolution during the seismic cycle is one of the key processes that define the maturity of active faults and controls nucleation, rupture propagation and arrest of an earthquake (Hardebeck and Okada, 2018;Hergert and Heidbach, 2011;Oglesby and Mai, 2012;Schorlemmer and Wiemer, 2005;Stein, 1999).…”