134 A. B. Wynne — Notes on an 'Earthquake in tJie JPunjah. [Xo. 3, 



Several houses and public buildings in the district were cracked and 

 otherwise damaged. 



I am informed by another Officer (Major Browne) who was then in 

 Kohat that he felt the shock at about the same time given above, it lasted 

 some two minutes, shook the whole place very violently, so that people left 

 their houses, and it seemed to come from the westward. 



A considerable portion of one of the walls of the strongly built Fort 

 of Kohat was thrown down. No accompanying sound was noticed by my 

 friend, and the whole character of the disturbance seems to have resembled 

 that of other places. 



Feshdwar. My informant felt the shock here as he was '' marching 

 out" with his regiment towards Jamrud. It occurred at noon nearly, 

 Madras time, (or after 11"30 station time) and he was then about three 

 miles from Peshawar on the Jamriid road. A halt having been made, some 

 of the men who were sitting down jumped up, startled by the motion. He 

 noticed that a low rumbling sound immediately preceded the shock : the 

 earth was plainly seen to undulate, and a water-cut beside the road, after the 

 shock had passed, showed a lately wetted margin of two feet or more, con- 

 sequent upon the transit of a longitucinal wave caused by the undulations. 

 The motion came from the westward in the direction of Jamrud. Some of 

 the people present felt nausea. 



On his return to the station he found the front of his bungalow thrown 

 down. A wall of the fort also fell, and several other houses were damaged. 

 The Barracks escaped, owing to their having been built with iron couplings 

 in the walls, and in the city, from the use of wooden tie-beams in the 

 masonry, because of the damage often done here by slighter earthquakes, 

 the injury done was less than in the Station. 



Naosliera. Keports say the shock was severely felt here. 



Soti Marddn, I can only learn that the earthquake-wave here set 

 things which were suspended swinging in an east and west direction. 



Attock. At Attock the earthquake occurred late in the forenoon 

 (station time) about noon by Madras. A wall of the Serai or fort was 

 thrown down, and the motion of the earth was strongly felt even by people 

 on foot, by whom a strong shock may often pass unnoticed. 



Ahhottabad. Here the movement commenced within a minute or so 

 before or after 12, noon, (Madras time) as nearly as I could estimate from the 

 time usually kept at the station. I was lying sick in bed but happened to 

 have my watch in view ; there was a palpable undulation crossing my bed 

 from westward to east. At first it commenced with a slight tremor of the 

 usual kind and after a short pause of perhaps 3 seconds, this returned with 

 greatly increased strength. The wall of the room cracked from the crown 

 of the arch over the door to the roof, which being of wooden shingles 



