MUSSOORIE-DEHRA DUN EPICENTRAL TRACT. \\Q 



In Bansi Lai's house a wall running N. 30° E. displays a crack 

 one inch wide, hading N. 30° E. at 48°. 



Dispensary. — This building is aligned N. 25° E. The worst 

 cracks run longitudinally through the arched roofs of the main 

 structure and the verandah. The cross partition walls have moved 

 to N 25° E. — S. 25° W., showing that movement also took place at 

 right angles to the main axis of the structure. 



In a wall coursing N. 70° W., in Sujaat's house, an old crack 

 hading 15° to W. has widened to 2 to 3 inches. 



Pundit Ram Chand's house gives evidence of movement along a 

 line N. 30° E.— S. 30° W. 



Most of the evidence points to movement along a line running 

 N.20°— 30° E.— S. 20°— 30° W. In two cases, however, the movement 

 was N. 30° W.— S. 30° E. and N. 65° W.— S. 65° E. 



Rurki. 



Rurki not only lies outside the Dehra-Mussoorie epicentral area, 

 but also away from the hills altogether, being situated on the right 

 bank of the Ganges canal and on the alluvial tract of the great 

 Gangetic basin. Its College of Engineering and Canal Workshops make 

 it a centre of some importance. Although on alluvium it is not far 

 from the foot of the Sub-Himalaya, and the not-insignificant damage 

 to buildings and the earth fissures point to this condition having 

 somewhat magnified the local effects of the shock. 



Mr. Simpson's narrative continues : — 



The. railway telegraph clock stopped at 6-15 a.m. According to 



Time records tne tuBe sneet tne clock was correct on the previous 

 day. The pendulum swings S 70° E. 



The telegraph master noted the time of quake to be 6-8 or 6-9 a.m., 

 using an accurate time-keeping watch corrected daily by the office clock 

 Railway build" ^ n ^ ne s ^ a ^ 10n building the crowns of two arches 



running S. 70° E. are slightly cracked. 



In the officials' quarters a long arched roof coursing N. 70° W. — 

 S. 70° E. is cracked from end to end. Cross-walls have moved at 

 right angles to the main axis of the structure. 



