]8 OLDHAM: CATALOGUE OF INDIAN EARTHQUAKES. 



A. D. 



1829. No date. — Kabul. — Very severe. — Rurnes quoted by IB air d Smith. — 



Jour. Asiat. Soc, Bengal, xii, 1041. 



„ March 12th. — B angaloee. — Lasted only few seconds : houses much shaken 

 8-10 p.m. noise like a rushing wind. — Asiat. Jour., xxviii, 479, 



1829.) 



„ September 18th. — Calcutta. — Very strong, said to be vertical. — Jour. Asiat. 

 Soc, Beng., 1843, p. !042. 



1830. July 17th. — Delhi. — Smart: undulations from east to west; " the last 



1-15 A.M. of three earthquakes felt during four months." — Asiat, 



Jour.,new ser. v, 199, (1831.) 

 „ December 15th. — Chittagong.— Three rapidly succeeding severe shocks : loud; 



4-50 p.m. noise from southwards. — Ibid., 64. 



„ December 16th. — Chittagong. — Two other shocks at the hours mentioned. — 



10 a.m. Ibid. 



11 P.M. 



„ December 3lst. — Chittagong. — Very violent,, more so than any of the others ; 

 2 a.m. ten shocks felt since 15th ; houses all seriously cracked. — 



Asiat. Jour., v, 64, (1831). 



1831. date P. . — Peshawur and Valley of Indus.— Severe ; extended 



from Peshawur to Dera Ghazee Khan : felt most at Dera- 

 hund ; men and camels unable to stand ; rocks fell in 

 many places : water forced from crevices in the plain.— 

 Vigne's Afghanistan, i, 58. 



„ October 24th. — Delhi, &c. — Apparently perpendicular, or from north to 

 12-30 Noon. south ; lasted one minute ; trees appeared violently agi- 



tated ; difficult to stand : nausea general. (Recorded at 

 N. lat. 28° 34', E. long. 78° 4' 26," or west of Delhi). 

 Scarcely felt to the north of this, but more severely to 

 south and south-west. — -Gleanings in Science, iii, 388. 



„ December 25th. — Lohughat in Kumaon. — Undulatory motion from north- 

 9 p.m. west to south-east, lasting seven seconds. — Brit. Ass. 



Catal., 1854, 130; McClelland 's Kumaon, p. 207. 



.1832. January 22nd. — Near Lahore. — Violent : people all rushed out of houses. — 

 11 p.m. Asiat. Jour. 1832, viii, 146. This was only on the out- 



skirts of this severe shock which appeal's to have had its 

 centre near the valley of the Oxus. — Burnes' Travels in 

 Bokhara, ii, 15, 2nd edit., 1835. 



„ February 21st,— Lahore, Valley op Badakshan, N. W. India. — Huge 

 masses of rock were thrown from the cliffs in many places, 

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