306 Chas. Davison— The Quetta Earthquake of 1892. 
V.—Nore on THE Quetra Hartruquake or DecemBer 207TH, 1892. 
By Cuarues Davison, M.A., 
Mathematical Master at King Edward’s High School, Birmingham. 
N the morning of December 20, 1892, a severe earthquake was 
felt in the neighbourhood of Quetta in British Baltchistan. 
Some of the remarkable effects of this shock have already been 
described in a paper in “ Engineering” for May 19, by Mr. R. W. 
Egerton, the executive engineer in charge of the Shalabagh division 
of the North-Western Railway. The present note is founded partly 
on this paper, and partly on further details contained in letters 
written by Mr. Egerton to his father, Sir. R. E. Egerton, K.C.1. EH. 
and to myself. It will thus be seen that everything that is of value 
in this paper is due to Mr. Egerton’s careful observations ; my own 
part has simply been to edit these notes and to select from them 
those particulars which appear to me of most interest to geologists. 
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MARGE CHARMAN 
CHAMAN EXTENSION RAILWAY. 
Scale of Miles 
Reference. 
Railway shown thus ---— *¥ 
Earthquake fissure -— = 
1526.A 
Soon after the close of the last Afghan war a new railway was 
begun, in order to connect the important positions of Quetta and 
1 My thanks are due to Dr. Lapworth for placing me in communication with Sir 
Robert Egerton, and to the latter gentleman for the many extracts which he has 
kindly sent me from his son’s letters; also to the publisher of ‘‘ Engineering ’’ for 
his courtesy in allowing me to reproduce three of the five illustrations which accom- 
panied Mr. Kgerton’s paper. 
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