The article is available on line (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt024). The full citation is: Carafa, M. M. C. & Barba, S., 2013. The stress field in Europe: optimal orientations with confidence limits, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt024 A freely downloadable postprint and the supplementary files are deposited in the Earth-prints open archive (www.earth-prints.org) The following files and figure are for the online download. Table_S1.csv: contains the interpolated stress orientations in Europe (330W-40E;25N-76N) Column "ANN" contains the searching radius (expressed as Annulus number). To convert in degrees, use eq. (2). Column "Lat" contains the latitude of the interpolation point (degrees). Column "Lon" contains the longitude of the interpolation point (degrees). Column "AZI" contains the azimuth of the maximum horizontal compressive stress orientations (degrees). Column "C90" contains the 90% confidence interval for the maximum horizontal compressive stress orientations (degrees). Column "N" contains the number data (from World Stress Map release 2008) falling into the search circle. Column "Nc" contains the number of clusters. Table_S1.csv.gz: same as Table_A1.csv, in compressed (gzip) format. Figure_S1.pdf: SHmax orientations in Europe with confidence limits. Red bars: interpolated orientations (this work) Black bars: confidence limits (this work). Relief model from ETOPO1 (Amante and Eakins, 2009) Several zipped archives contain the supplementary Table S1 of Carafa and Barba (2013) in a certain format (Mapinfo, Autocad, Arcgis or Google Earth). First published online: February 19, 2013 Comments to michele.carafa@ingv.it and salvatore.barba@ingv.it Thanks to Gabriele Tarabusi for helping with the kml conversion and to Paco Burrato for the Mapinfo/Arcgis versions.