Three Pagodas Fault

It developed as a consequence of the collision between the Indian and the Eurasian Plate.

[1] The Three Pagodas Fault Zone (TPFZ) is a roughly 50 km wide zone separating the westernmost range of the Tenasserim Hills from the Tenasserim coast in Myanmar.

The whole area is marked by a great number of fault traces and homoclinal ridges of Paleozoic limestone.

[2] The Three Pagodas Fault Zone accommodates the southeastward extrusion of Indochina, with stresses twisting clockwise.

There is a fear that a future earthquake caused by the TPFZ and the Sri Sawat Fault Zone (SSFZ) could damage the large dams in Kanchanaburi Province in the future and that it could cause widespread damage to Bangkok.

Map of the tectonic setting of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake showing the fault lines across the Tenasserim Hills