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Table 3 Weight index values of various classes of five controlling factors

From: Landslide damage along Araniko highway and Pasang Lhamu highway and regional assessment of landslide hazard related to the Gorkha, Nepal earthquake of 25 April 2015

Factor

Class area

Landslide number

LND

WI

Elevation

 610–1000 m

155.94

159

1.02

-1.05

 1000–1500 m

433

438

1.01

-1.06

 1500–2000 m

226.03

1000

4.42

0.41

 2000–2500 m

95.24

981

10.3

1.26

 2500–3000 m

58.83

327

5.56

0.64

 3000–4750 m

58.39

100

1.71

-0.54

Slope angle

 0–5°

139.07

15

0.11

-3.3

 5–10°

86.75

42

0.48

-1.8

 10–15°

96.61

71

0.73

-1.38

 15–20°

141.86

144

1.02

-1.06

 20–25°

163.49

290

1.77

-0.5

 25–30°

152.92

458

3.00

0.02

 30–35°

115.59

641

5.55

0.64

 35–40°

76.65

640

8.35

1.05

 40–74°

54.5

704

12.92

1.49

Slope aspect

 Flat

16.63

6

0.36

-2.09

 N

120.07

300

2.50

-0.16

 NE

131.27

459

3.50

0.18

 E

112.63

549

4.87

0.51

 SE

119.02

545

4.58

0.45

 S

121.36

305

2.51

-0.15

 SW

158.51

295

1.86

-0.45

 W

127.22

312

2.45

-0.18

 NW

120.72

234

1.94

-0.41

Lithology

 Ti

29.34

101

3.44

0.16

 Pc1

308.10

2564

8.32

1.05

 Pc2

288.82

324

1.12

-0.96

 Pc3

345.91

16

0.05

-4.15

 Mi

55.26

0

0

-14.89

Seismic intensity

 VIII

185.60

60

0.32

-2.2

 IX

841.84

2945

3.5

0.18

  1. Lithology type Mi registered no landslide. In order to avoid ln(0) in calculating WI value, we assigned the LND value of the class Mi with 0.000001, i.e. a small enough value, and the WI value of the class is -14.89