130 A. IJ. Wynne — Notes on an JEarthciualce in fJie Pimjah. [No. J^, 



Some of the houses in the station were rent and shaken, and a forge at 

 one of the workshops was thrown down, but the damage done seems to 

 have been less than elsewhere. The place is situated on an open plain and 

 stands upon a considerable depth of sandy and coherent brick clay, over- 

 lying highly inclined sandstones and clays, often vertically bedded. 



Jhelum. The shock was felt at Jhelum at noon, Madras time. It 

 appeared to come from N. E. and to pass to S. W., and it was unaccom- 

 panied by any rumbling sound. It damaged the steeple of the Church near 

 the top, cracking it across and shifting the ujDper part both by lifting it to 

 one side and turning it horizontally on the base of the broken part, as far 

 as can be seen from below. 



The Officer who communicated this thought he must have got a sun- 

 stroke ; he was out of doors when the shock occurred and the ground moved, 

 and he noticed an interval after the first, between it and the (?) stronger 

 shock which followed, much in the same way as occurred at Abbottabad. 



Murree. In a letter from Murree it was mentioned that the shock 

 was_ severely felt, and house-property sustained considerable damage : no fur- 

 ther details have reached me. 



By another letter (from Mr. Holman) I learn that the time the shock 

 occurred was 12 o'clock, noon : its direction so far as he could remember 

 was from south to north.* (From another observer I learn that the direc- 

 tion appeared to be from west or west by south.) Its duration he supposes 

 was about half a minute, though most people said three minutes. (N. B. 

 The average of these would give one minute and three quarters, very nearly 

 the time observed of Abbottabad.) 



There were three distinct shocks, the last the most severe, and he only 

 remembers one as bad during a long-continued residence of many years in 

 Murree. 



Some damage was done to the station, walls fell, and several chimneys 

 also. One observer heard two distinct loud sounds like volley-firing, which 

 he attributed to the working of the shingle roofs. 



Lahore. My information concerning the earthquake at Lahore comes 

 partly from the " Pioneer" — or the local press (Civil and Military Gazette), 

 partly from a friend who was kind enough to make enquiry for me. 



From the report in the " Pioneer" of March 6th, 1878, though the shock 

 is said to have been severe, the writer did not himself notice the occurrence 

 at all, but was told of it afterwards, and gives the time as noon, presumably 

 Madras time. 



In the local paper of March 4th, the time of the shock is given as 4 

 minutes to 12 o'clock noon. " A continuous vibration of the ground lasted 



* The ridge on which Murree stands at an elevation of over 7000 feet runs nearly 

 N. E.— S. W. 



