CATALOGUE. 37 



A. D. 



1858. August 11th.— Simla..— Two shocks, first slight, between 5 and 6 p. m. ; 

 lasted 4 seconds ; walls cracked, &c. — Friend of India ; 

 Trans., Bombay Geogr. Soc Extended to Madras : (?) 

 not felt at Bombay.— Perry, Mem. Cour. Belg., sii, 54 



» » 13th. — Malabae. — Houses shaken 'for an hour.' — Offl. Records. 



?-0 A. M. 

 „ August 22nd. — Tezptje. — Ibid. 



8 A.M. 



„ „ 23rd. — Lahoke. — Slight ; 6-30 p. m. — Ibid. 



„ „ „ . — Jacobabad. — Almost imperceptible. — Ibid. 



2 A. M. 



» „ „ . — Malabae. — Shocks for about an hour ; shook all houses. — 



7 a. M. Ibid. 



„ August 24th. — Waltaie. — Slight shock in forenoon. — Ibid. 



» » „ — Beitish Buemah. — A very severe and destructive earth- 



quake in many parts of Burmah. The shock was most 

 severely felt in the north of British Burmah, about Thayet 

 Myo and Prome, but was experienced at all stations, the 

 intensity decreasing from the north southwards : general 

 direction appears to have been from east-north-east to west- 

 south-west, being the mean of directions as noticed by 

 different persons. The time is given as 3-38 P.M. at Thayet 

 Myo ; 3-45 a.m. at Rangoon : at Rangoon or Moulmein no 

 damage appears to have been done. At Henzada tops of 

 pagodas were knocked down or canted over. At Prome, 

 about 3-38, lasted about a minute, sharp and severe. The 

 Shue-the-thlap pagoda much injured ; the only three pucca 

 houses in the station uninjured, especially those on the 

 bank of the river. Captain Ardagh, Deputy Commissioner, 

 says, he felt his house rattle very much as if a horse or 

 other animal had got under it and was knocking against 

 it. Bat the motion was too great for this, and he was 

 going out to see what was the cause, when he felt the floor 

 wave beneath him, and just then heard the crash of a 

 number of bottles, &c. Dr. McQueen says, he distinctly 

 saw the east end of the house raised first and then the 

 west. 

 Thayet Myo. — " Lasted about 45 seconds ; three distinct 

 undulations or waves, preceded by a rocking or tremulous 

 motion of very short duration. Some persons who were in 



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