Overestimation of the earthquake hazard along the Himalaya: constraints in bracketing of medieval earthquakes from paleoseismic studies

Geoscience Letters

Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 1 List of all the recalibrated radiocarbon OSL ages and references of the samples collected from the trenches excavated by previous workers

Trenches	Sample number	Measured radiocarbon age	Calibrated ages cal AD	Mean (µ)	References
Hajipur					Malik et al. (2010a)
Undeformed unit	JMT6	300 ± 40	1426–1700	1707
Kangra
Undeformed unit	JNMPC10	110 ± 30	1681–1938	1817	Malik et al. (2015)
Bhatpur					Kumahara and Jayangondaperumal (2013)
Undeformed unit	BHA-117	480 ± 40	1327–1476	1429
Chandigarh					Kumar et al. (2006)
Undeformed unit	PAN-03	665 ± 40	1270–1397	1333
Kala Amb					Kumar et al. (2001)
	C18	620 ± 30	1292–1401	1346
	C15	420 ± 40	1420–1630	1492
Rampur Ganda					Kumar et al. (2006)
Undeformed unit	AB08	530 ± 35	1316–1443	1393
Lal Dang					Kumar et al. (2006)
Undeformed unit	LDT-31	375 ± 25	1447–1631	1526
Ramnagar					Kumar et al. (2006)
Undeformed unit	BR-06	695 ± 35	1444–1634	1526
Ramnagar					Rajendran et al. (2015)
Undeformed unit	P-1	727 ± 16	1264–1287	1276
Kaladungi					Malik et al. (2016)
Deformed unit	GDC06	80 ± 30	1690–1926	1826
Undeformed unit	GDC010	250 ± 30	1521–1939	1676
Koliabas					Mugnier et al. (2005)
Deformed River Terrace	AA50068	775 ± 35	1190–1285	1246
Mahara					Lavé et al. (2005)
Undeformed unit	M2-12	880 ± 40	1036–1245	1143
Sir Khola					Sapkota et al. (2013); Bollinger et al. (2014)
	SIR08-05	645 ± 35	1280–1398	1340
Panijhora					Mishra et al. (2016)
Deformed	P10	990 ± 30	989–1153	1060
Chalsa					Kumar et al. (2010)
Deformed	C-7	840 ± 30	1059–1264	1201
Nameri					Kumar et al. (2010)
Deformed	N-22	895 ± 35	1039–1215	1126
Harmutty					Kumar et al. (2010)
	H13S	670 ± 35	1270–1394	1330

The recalibration is carried out through OxCal 4.2 online program; it provides the probable calendar date range along with the uncertainty and the mean value. All the ages are processed at 94.5% confidence level