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Cover: Kumar et al . [DOI: 10.1002/2015TC003979 ] modelled source mechanism and depth of earthquakes in the eastern Himalayan and Indo‐Burman plate boundary systems and found that the entire crust beneath northeast India is seismogenic. The N20E convergence between India and Tibet is accommodated by (i) N‐S convergence within the eastern Himalayan wedge, northern and eastern edge of the Shillong Plateau and the Bengal Basin crust; and (ii) E‐W subduction within the Indo‐Burman convergence zone, resulting in downdip extension and along arc compression of the subducted Indian plate. The earthquake slip vectors are in agreement with GPS velocity vectors (blue arrows) and conform to the clockwise rotating “microplates” model. See pp. 2279–2295.