Widespread intraplate deformation within mainland Southeast
Asia is conspicuously expressed by northwest trending strike-slip
faults which originate near the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. These
include the Ailao Shan–Red River Fault (ASRR), the Mae Ping Fault
(MPF), and the Three Pagodas Fault (TPF) (Fig. 1), which are interpreted to have played a key role in the eastwards movement of
fault-bounded blocks during indentation of the Indian continent
into the Eurasian plate