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We report GPS measurements of crustal deformation across the Kashmir Himalaya. We combined these results with the published results of GPS measurements from the Karakoram fault system and suggest that in the Kashmir Himalaya, the motion between the southern Tibet and India plate is oblique with respect to the structural trend. We estimated this almost north-south oblique motion to be 17 ± 2 mm/yr, which is partitioned between dextral motion of 5 ± 2 mm/yr on the Karakoram fault system and oblique motion of 13.6 ± 1 mm/yr with an azimuth of N198°E in the northwest-southeast trending Kashmir Himalayan frontal arc. Thus, the partitioning of the India-Southern Tibet oblique motion is partial in the Kashmir Himalayan frontal arc. However, in the neighboring Nepal Himalaya, there is no partitioning; the entire India-Southern Tibet motion of 19-20 mm/yr is arc normal and is accommodated entirely in the Himalayan frontal arc. The convergence rate in the Kashmir frontal Himalaya is about 25% less than that in the Nepal Himalayan region. However, here the Karakoram fault system accommodates about 20% of the southern Tibet and Indian plate convergence and marks the northern extent of the NW Himalayan arc sliver. The Kaurik Chango rift, a north-south oriented seismically active cross-wedge transtensional fault appears to divide the sliver in two parts causing varying translatory motion on the Karakoram fault on either side of the Kaurik Chango rift.

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The 11 April 2012 earthquake (Mw 8.6) in the Indian Ocean, about 100 km west off the Sumatra subduction zone, is the largest intraplate strike‐slip earthquake in the known history. Two hours later, it triggered another great earthquake of Mw 8.2 in its vicinity. The earthquakes reflect the internal deformation of the diffused plate boundary between India and Australia caused by the differential plate motion between them. The slip occurred on conjugate planes, and the presence of some of them has been reported from the swath bathymetry and satellite magnetic anomalies. We estimate coseismic offsets due to these earthquakes at continuous GPS sites in the Andaman‐Nicobar region and at other International GNSS Service (IGS) sites around the earthquakes source region. The sites on the Andaman Islands, which are about 900–1200 km to the north of the earthquake epicenters, experienced predominantly southward coseismic offset of up to 3 cm. The nearest site, Campbell Bay, on Great Nicobar Island, about 500 km to the north of the earthquake, documented an ESE offset of about 4 cm. The coseismic offsets are consistent with the finite‐fault slip models derived from back projection of the seismic waves recorded by the global networks.

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