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Further particulars of the Earthquake in Nepal 



[Dire. 



strike every one as remarkable, that while here, the shock was more 

 violent than elsewhere, its effects should not have been felt equally at 

 as great a distance from hence to the north a<= to the south. Why this ? 

 is the natural question, but who can answer where all are in darkness. 

 Other explosive forces spread equally in all directions, this did not; 

 granting that the centre was where the violence was greatest. To 

 the south, the country is a level, uninterrupted plain, calculated to faci- 

 litate the rapid transmission of the agitating force, while to the north 

 are the mightiest mountains of the world ; it may therefore be supposed, 

 that the quantity of force expended in reaching to the summits of the 

 Himalayan peaks, and in shaking like molehills the whole of the 

 mountain region around, could not be far short in intensity of that 

 required to agitate slightly the plains to the southward, even to the 

 distance above recorded. In this li°rht, it mav be imagined, that the 

 explosive force may have spread itself equally on all sides, the greater 

 surface distance to which it reached towards the south being balanced 

 by the immense vertical spaces it traversed in shaking from their bases 

 to their summits the innumerable hills and mountains of the extensive 

 region lying between the plains of Hindustan and those of Tibet. 



I subjoin an accurate register of the shocks which have occurred 

 up to this date, given me by Captain Robinson. Many of them have 

 been severe, and throughout the whole course of these visitations, 

 there have been two distinct varieties observed in the character of the 

 shocks : all those at the commencement were of undulatory or swing- 

 ing kind ; the others wanted this swell, and were a violent up and 

 down shaking, with little lateral, motion. The first may be called the 

 horizontal, the latter the vertical, variety. The former alone have been 

 destructive to property, while the latter, from the greater noise by 

 which they are accompanied, and the more rapid oscillations of the 

 ground, are perhaps the more terrifying. 



Register of Earthquakes experienced at Katkmandu, from 26th August to 26th 



November, 1833, inclusive. 



Dat 



'e. 



August 



26th, 





27th, 





28th, 





30th, 





31st, 



Sept. 1, 



tol 1th, 



October 



4th, 



Time. 



One at 5h. 55m. p. m. another at 

 10h.50m.p. m. 10-58 p. m. was the 

 time the great one commenced, and 

 its duration was three minutes. 

 4-53 a. m. 5-20 a. m. 5-26 a.m. 

 7-15 A. m. 4-55 p. m. 

 4 shocks, one at 9 a. m. 

 2 during the night, 

 10 shocks, 



7-30 a. m. a smart one, 1 minute's 

 duration. 



Remarks. 



All of the undulating kind, as 

 well as nine others that occurred 

 during the same night. 



Also undulatory. 

 Also undulatory. 



Slight. 



Slight. 



This was a severe one, and of 

 the vertical kind ; it was felt at 

 Gorakhpur and Allahabad. 



