Fig. 5

Orientation of S_Hmax predicted by the model in comparison to the mean orientation of the WSM (Heidbach et al., 2016) and Levi et al. (2019). Details are described in the text. a Model results at 5 km TVD (red lines), the mean orientation derived from the WSM (black lines) with standard deviation (grey wedges). b Color-coded deviation between the results and the mean orientation of the WSM. Blue indicates an anti-clockwise rotation of the model results and orange a clockwise rotation of the model results w.r.t the mean orientation of the WSM. c Histogram showing the deviation displayed in a and b