CATALOGUE. 19 



A. D. 



]832. February 21sl chokiug up valleys. Great part of population o Badak- 

 — contd. shan destroyed. — Trans. Geol. 8oc, Lond., 2ser., iii, 492. 



1832. July 2nd. — Lohughat. — -Earth shook for twelve seconds, accompanied 



11 P.M. by a sound like that of rushing water, which lasted three 



seconds before the shocks and as many after. — Brit. Ass. 

 CataL, 1854, 233 ; McClelland 's Kumaon, p. 207. 

 „ August 18th. — Lohughat. — Another vibratory sbock, lasting five seconds ; 

 7 a.m. weather sultry. — Ibid., p. 208. 



„ September 23rd. — Lohughat. — Another shock, as on 2nd July. — Ibid. 

 10 P.M. 



1833. May 30th. — Lohughat — Earth shook rather violently for about twelve 



12 p.m. seconds ; noise like rushing water. — McClelland' s Kumaon, 



p. 208. 



„ August 26th. — Ne pal, and all over the centre and east of North- 

 5-30 p.m. ern India. — At Katmandu, accompanied (ILp.m.) by a 



11 „ loud subterranean noise, compared with the noise produced 



12 „ by the discharge of 100 pieces of artillery. More than 100; 

 &c. houses were levelled in a moment, and equal or worse 



destruction in other places. Trees and even the smallest 

 shrubs rocked from their very roots. At Chupra, a 

 chasm of considerable size was said to have been formed 

 in the earth. In Tirhoot, water thrown out of tanks, 

 4 feet deep, the water of which was 3 feet below the edge. 

 Birds thrown right out of their nests. Men could not keep 

 their feet. At Buxar, shocks said to have been felt 

 violently at one side, of river and not at the other. Pre- 

 ceded by very hot close weather, and in many places suc- 

 ceeded by stormy winds and heavy rain. 

 The direction of the motion is very variously stated. At 

 Tirhoot, said, to have been from east to west i at Buxar, 

 from north to south : at Patna, apparently east and west : 

 at Calcutta, north-east to south-west : at Katmandu, 

 apparently east to west : all shocks came from east or 

 north-east ! Each of the shocks lasted only three or four 

 seconds generally, but some are stated to have lasted one 

 minute. At Lucknow, four shocks are reported ; at Cal- 

 cutta, three'; at Purneah, three. In all places, several 

 shocks of greater violence, besides numerous slighter ones. 

 At most of the places, the earth was in almost continuous 

 agitation for 24 hours. 



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