Research Article
Recognition of Earthquake-Prone Areas in the Himalaya: Validity of the Results
Table 1
Parameters used for recognition and their thresholds of discretization.
| | Parameters | Thresholds of discretization |
| | Topographic parameters | | | Minimum topographic altitude, m ()
| ≤300 >2100 | | Relief energy, m () () | ≤2900 >4400 | | Distance between the points where and are measured, km (L) | | | Slope, () | ≤40 >70 |
| | Parameters from the morphostructural map | | | Distance to the nearest 2nd rank lineament, km, () | ≤50 >120 | | Distance to the nearest intersection out of this node, km, () | ≤50 >62 |
| | Morphological parameter | — | This parameter takes one of the following
three values in accordance with the contact of
relief types in the node: | | | | | Mountain/plain (m/p) | | | Mountain/piedmont/plain (m/pd/p) | | | Mountain/piedmont (m/pd/) | | | Mountain/upland (m/up) | | | Mountain/mountain (m/m) | |
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