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Memoir on Indian Earthquakes. 



1053 



Register of Earthquakes experienced at Katmandu, from 25th August 

 to 26th November, 1833, inclusive. 



Date. 



1833. 

 Aug. 26th 



27th 



,, 28th 



„ 30th 

 „ 31st 



Sept. 1st to 

 11th 



Oct. 4th 



Remarks. 



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

 Another at I Oh. 50m., 

 lOh. 58m. p. m. was the 

 time the great one com- 

 menced, and its duration 

 was 3m. 



M. 

 M. 



M. 

 M. 



All of the undulating kind, as well as nine 

 others that occurred during the same night. 



4h. 53m. a. 



5h. 20m. a. 



5h. 26m. a. 



7h. 15m. a. 



4h. 55m. p. m. 



Four shocks: one at 9 a. 



Two during the night. 



Ten shocks. 



7h.30m. a. m. a smart one, 

 lm. duration. 



> Also undulatory. 

 I Also undulatory. 



Slight. 



Slight. 



This was a severe one, and of the vertical kind : 



18th 



„ 26th 



Nov. 8 th 



„ 16th 



„ 26th 



it was felt at Allahabad and Goruckhpur : also 

 | at Calcutta. 

 4h. 55m. p. m. Severe and Same character as last one : was felt slightly at 

 ushered in with a loud Allahabad : also at Calcutta, 

 noise. 

 lOh. 37m. a. m. Slight, 

 3h. 55m. a. m. Slight. 

 At midnight severe. 



llh. 45m. p. m. Severe. This was of the up-and-down kind, lasted 

 In all 39 shocks have been minute, occurred at the full moon when the 

 noted, many slight ones whole people of Nepaul were praying at Pas- 

 have occurred besides. punath ; excited a great commotion, and was 

 the only instance where the prophecies of the 

 Brahmins were realised, although a hundred 

 lucky moments had been determined on for 

 the last three months for the occurrence of 

 shocks. 



I have examined such Meteorological Registers of 1833, as I have 

 been able to procure, with the view of ascertaining whether any indi- 

 cations of atmospheric disturbances accompanying the Earthquake 

 were to be detected, but without success. Such a Register for Nepaul. 

 I have not however been able to procure, and I regret it, since it was 

 there, as the seat of the Earthquaking force, that the disturbances 

 might have been most confidently anticipated. Although torrents of 

 rain fell in the valley, the Rain Guage at Calcutta on the same day is 

 recorded as empty. 



With the physical structure of the valley of Nepaul I am not ac- 

 quainted, nor have I found any trust-worthy account of its geology, or 

 that of the adjoining mountains. Colonel Kirkpatrick, in his Work on 

 Nepaul, states, (p. 177), " With regard to volcanoes, although 1 met 

 with no traces of any in our route, yet it is certain that there are some 

 eruptions to the Westward; but whether these arise merely from 

 bituminous or other inflammable substances, or are actually volcanic, 



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