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whilst in walls at right angles the hade of cracks is 0° and 20° to 

 S.W. In the roof ot a verandah cracks are displayed running N. 35° 

 E., and also at right angles to this direction. 



Faces S. 5° W. Central room displays horizontal crack running 

 through all the walls along the line of a cornice 



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about 12 inches below the ceiling. The corners of 

 all rooms have opened out. Cracks are chiefly vertical, and are most 

 pronounced in N. — S. walls. 



Faces due west. The worst cracks are to be seen in N. — S. walls. 

 Two chimneys are cracked round the base, and that 

 on the east front fell due east towards the slope of 

 the roof. 



Faces N. E. A portion of the north-west face fell outwards. 



Walls running N.E. display numerous fractures, 



St. Alban. chiefly on structural lines. (See pi. 16, fig. 2.) 



Several houses in this neighbourhood were wrecked and are now being 



demolished. In every case the material and construction are 



poor. 



This is largely a wooden erection, and such parts are uninjured. 



The eastern portion is of brick, and of this, arches 



in walls running N, — S. are badly cracked. 



This is a strongly built erection of stone and lime oriented S. 60° 



E. The only damage is to the tower, on the N. E 



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face of which a waving, vertical crack runs iroin top 

 to bottom. On the opposite face a slight crack is to be seen at the 

 crown of a window arch, whilst an interior crack occurs over a doorway. 

 In the Parsonage a slight floor crack courses N. W., a few slight 

 corner cracks have developed, and the roof has been severely jarred. 



This building is aligned N. 20° W. It is under construction. At 

 ^ „ the time of the quake the skeleton of the building 



^ew R. C. Chapel. 4 , , , f 



was complete. The greatest damage is on the north 



gable, a portion of which fell to the south and the foundations of which 



are said to have sunk from 4 to 9 inches. The face wall of the eastern 



transept fell chiefly to the east. The steel girders forming the roof 



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