110 Papers relating to the Earthquake 



The utmost limits within which this earthquake was felt, as 

 far as we have yet learned, may be fixed at Catmandoo in the 

 north, Pondicherry to the south, Calcutta to the east, and 

 the Mountains of Billoochistan to the west. In Nepal it was 

 felt sensibly on the evening of the 16th June, the exact time 

 not specified. At Calcutta the shock was felt very sensibly, 

 but apparently not so severely as at Chunar, and more so than 

 in Malwa and Khaudesh, in many parts of which it was not 

 felt at all. At Pondicherry it was severely experienced, and 

 described as much more awful than in many intermediate pro- 

 vinces. In Sindh it was felt very partially and slightly ; and 

 similarly at Shikarpoor on the southern frontier of the Pesha- 

 war country. 



The range of the great shock is therefore known to have 

 embraced a space of 18° of lat. and 20° of long. In many 

 particular spots in this extent of country, of course, the mo- 

 tion was either not noticed or did not occur ; but it was se- 

 verely or sensibly felt at these limits on the evening of the 16th 

 June. 



The ocean extending S. and S.W. from Cutch will pro- 

 hibit our ever knowing the limits of the shock in those direc- 

 tions ; but it may be remarked that early in June a severe 

 earthquake occui'red at Mockha on the Red Sea; but I have 

 never heard that it was experienced (or that of ours of the 

 16th) at Muscat, which is nearly due west of Cutch*. 



What forms, in my opinion, one of the most striking cir- 

 cumstances connected with this phaenomenon is, that it should 

 have been felt over such an extensive surface, and that its se- 

 verity should have been confined to the limited space of 200 

 miles or less. The damage sustained by Bulliaree, Amercote, 

 and Jesihner, which all lie in the Desert and north of Cutch, 

 points out that the severity of the motion extended beyond 

 Cutch in that particular direction ; yet Sindh, Marwar, and 

 Guzerat, including the peninsula of Kattewar, all of which 

 border on this province, suffered nothing f. The destructive 

 motion, therefore, seems to have been confined to a narrow 

 space, running in a direction of N.N.E. from Bhooj, as far as 

 Jesilmer. How far it extended in an opposite point it is im- 

 possible to say; but taking Cutch as a centre, the radius 



* It may not be superfluous to remark, that about the beginning of June 

 1819, Mount Etna was threatening to bury in its lava the cities in its vici- 

 nity ; Vesuvius was in a similar state of violent agitation; and earthquakes 

 were felt in different parts of Italy, and I believe in Sicily, although not in 

 the vicinity of these mountains. 



\ Poorbundor, Moorbee, and Amrun, are exceptions; but those people 

 who have seen its effects in these places and in Cutch declare the former to 

 be comparatively insignificant. 



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