i>)/8.] A. B. Wynne — Notes on an EartliquaJce in the Punjab. 133 



A few days before the greater shock, I felt an earthquake at Abhotta- 

 bacl, on February 2Gth, at 3 40 p. M. It was of the kind usual in 

 these parts, lasted only a few seconds and did no damage. A sharp shock 

 was reported in the " Pioneer" to have occurred at Kangra on the 10th of 

 March (after the greater one), and others occurred in Hazara — on March 

 29th at 7 p. M. ; on April 4th at 6*11 a. m., (a short and sharp 

 one) ; on April 19th at 5*9 a. m., a more considerable one ; on April 21st 

 at 9 20* A. M., lasting about five seconds. That of April 19th was, though 

 short, rather severe yet insufficient to bring down tall chimneys at 

 Abbottabad badly shaken and bulged by the earthquake of March 2nd. 

 The shock of the 21st caused the roof beams of the dak bungalow at 

 Haripur to creak, while on the night of the same day there was a slight 

 shock after midnight at Rawalpindi. 



In all the cases just mentioned except the Kangra one, of which 1 

 have no information in point, and that of April 4th, the undulation was 

 more or less clearly felt to be from west to east, as seems to be the case 

 most frequently in the N. W. Punjab, but on April 4th, it appeared to 

 come from north to south. In none, so far as I am aware, was any sound- 

 wave heard, indeed I have onl}^ once heard this : some years ago at Murree, 

 when an east and west shock occurred (at about 10 o'clock p. m.) in the 

 silence of the night. I find, however, that a noise was heard in some cases 

 accompanying the shock of March 2nd, 1&78, though entirely unnoticed 

 in others, and positively absent at Rawalpindi, according to a careful 

 observer. 



The detailed information, such as it is, which I have been able to collect 

 with regard to this severely-felt earthquake is as follows : — 



Earthqtmke of March 2nd, 1878. 



Bannu. The shock was felt here severely and lasted unusually long. 

 This is all the information I can gather. 



Kohdt. Captain Plowden, Deputy Commissioner of Kohat, replying to 

 a letter, informs me that the shock occurred there at 39 minutes past 

 11 o'clock A. M., station time, or noon ? by Madras. The motion came 

 from the west with a rumbling sound like that of the underground railway- 

 trains, followed by a roll and three sharp shocks : no shocks were observed 

 before or after this earthquake and its duration was not accurately 

 determined. 



Major Koss, 1st Sikhs, who gave this information, was bathing at the 

 time, and says the water was driven out of his tub to the height of eiglit 

 inches or so, and the bath-room seemed to heave like the cabin of a ship at 

 sea. 



* All local, not Madras time, for which add 23 minutes. 

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