**3.5 Andaman-Nicobar TZ**

This is an Island arc, a part of the Sumatran arc which is the collision front of the oceanic plate of the Indian Ocean and the Indochina-Malaysian continental

*Intra-Plate Dynamics and Active Tectonic Zones of the Indian Plate DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105647*

#### **Figure 6.**

*Tectonic map of Kutch showing major tectonic elements which are major stress barriers for strain build-up. Arrows indicate stress directions. Square marks the critical strain build-up zone in the fault step-over area. Stars and crossed circles within the critical zone are locations of major earthquake epicentres.*

plate (**Figure 1**). It extends northward into the Assam-Arakan orogenic belt where the oceanic plate has been consumed as the Burmese plate converged on the Indian plate. This Arc is very active seismic zone where the disastrous Tsunami of 2004 originated.
