KANGRA-KULU EPICENTRAL AREA. 9 



Earthquake Form. — Teiegraph and post master. Time 6-9, time compared 

 with Lahore every day at 4 P. m. There were first, vibrations E.— -W. judged by 

 hanging lamp. Secondly, main shocks. A cracking noise [prooably rafters of 

 house]. 1 No damage. 



(See also account of the Ban Doab canal near Pathankot, p. 344.) 



My own observations showed that the railway station had do visible 

 cracks. The line was completely undamaged. The travellers' bunga- 

 low and houses in the bazar uninjured, so far as a cursory inspection 

 could say although many of them were of a most unsubstantial kind. 



Nurpur (Kangra District). 

 Frcm Pathankot to Nurpur the road follows along gravel and alluvial 

 flats of the Chakka river and does not touch rock until close to Nurpur. No 

 visible damage was detected on the way. 2 Nurpur itself stands on the 

 crest of a normal fold in the younger Tertiary Siwalik conglomerate. 

 Strike N. W.— S. E., steep limb of fold to S. W. At the travellers' bunga- 

 low, built of local stone, there were just visible cracks at the joints of the 

 walls. Nothing had fallen, including new mud plaster which had re- 

 cently been applied to the doorways. The bungalow khitmatghar 

 said the house rocked " this way and that," indicating a slow oscillatory 

 motion and not a quick jerky motion. 



Shahpur (Kangra District). 

 From Nurpur to Shahpur the road follows generally along the 

 „. . , strike of the folded Siwalik conglomerate and the 



First violent ef- ° 



fects of the earth- underlying Nahan sandstones. Between these 

 places the first violent effects of the earthquake were 

 noticed at Siapari. 34 miles from Pathankot. Shops at road side, 

 roughly built of sun-dried bricks and with heavy slate roofs, partly 

 ruined. Similar effects at 37 m. 7 f., at 38 m. 4 f. and at 38 m. 6f. 

 At Shahpur itself, 39 m. 5 f., there were also similar effects : perhaps 

 half of the buildings ruined and the rest rent. All w r ere built of sun- 

 dried bricks, roughly shaped, and sometimes with stone foundations 

 raised 6 inches above ground. Slate roofs as* a rule, but sometimes 

 thatch. (See plate 3, fig. 2, w T hich illustrates the end house of a row 



1 Remarks in square brackets [ ] are iny own comments. 



2 I was travelling rapidly by £on0a=mail cart. 



