KANGRA-KULU EPICENTRAL AREA. 77 



The road below near Jay Devi slipped at the time of the earth- 

 quake where it passes over a patch of gray shaly 

 stuff. Slates fell off the Geri rest-house and the 

 house of the Chokidar and the house of the Lurobardar were badly 

 damaged. At Suket a new spring appeared. 



The earthquake did no damage at Jhungi. The houses here are 

 made of wood and took no harm. It is true that 

 the Chokidar's house at Geri fell ; it was an old 

 house with horizontal lines of rotten wood in between the stones. At 

 Geri it is the practice to build with stone. There was a vertical crack 

 found in the wall of the bungalow at Geri. The bungalow at Jhungi 

 though outwardly of stone has a lot of wood in it. People ran out of 

 their houses at Jhungi, but nothing more happened. 



At Pangna is a picturesque fort which was in no way damaged by 

 the earthquake. 



The earthquake shook slates off the Chindi bungalow and damaged 



sundrv rotten houses in the neighbourhood. It 

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stopped all the springs, and water has now to be 



carried some distance (2 miles). 



The earthquake shook down corners of some dilapidated houses, 



but did no damage to good houses. A spring 



opened where none had been before. 



The earthquake shook a few old and rotten houses in this village 



and slightly altered the springs which in some cases 



emerged at different points, but there is plenty of 



water near Charag. The rest-house on the hill top was damaged in 



this way. Over the window on the right hand side the masonry was 



twisted so that there are two obliquely vertical cracks, and the same 



side of both cracks is thrown forward out of the plumb in one case two 



inches, in the other case one inch. 



A third crack runs from the corner of the window through the top 



of the door near it round by the top of the window to the front door 



of the bungalow. Inside a lot of plaster had fallen but the wall is 



not damaged. 



