[1] The HGB has an extension to the westward that shows in warm or hot springs in the Peshawar region of Pakistan.
These may be interpreted as segments of slip lines caused by deformation of the ductile crust in the Asian tectonic plate.
[2] The thermal waters in Tibet were thought to be meteoric in origin, and the heat source to be decaying radioactive nuclides.
It is not clear whether the circulation of deep groundwater in this region is driven by topography or by tectonic lateral stress.
[4] It is in an active part of a slip-fault zone of the Nyainqentanglha Mountains and fractured Himalayan granite.