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Lahore (including Mian Mir and Shahdara). 



Mr. Pascoe's description somewhat abridged is as follows : — 



In spite of the size and importance of such a city as Lahore, the 



m. . A . evidence as to the exact minute the main shock was 



lime observations. 



felt is somewhat conflicting. 

 At the telegraph office no clocks stopped, and no satisfactory 

 observations of the time seem to have been recorded. 



At the railway station, the clock in the telegraph office stopped at 

 6-10 a.m. This clock is corrected every day at 4 p.m. by wire from 

 Madras, and had been so corrected on Monday, April 3rd. According 

 to the stationmaster and the train inspector the drum-clock on platform 

 5 was the only one in the station which did not stop. Two other 

 platform drum-clocks, whose pendulums swing in the same direction 

 stopped at 6-10 a.m. exactly. All platform clocks are put right every 

 Monday by the clock in the telegraph office, and had been so corrected 

 on Monday, April 3rd. 



Other time estimates of 6-12, 6-13 and 8-15| from less reliable 

 sources have been given. 



The general testimony is that there were two slight preliminary 

 Number of shocks snoc ^ s separated by an interval of two or three 

 seconds during which there was perceptible vibration. 

 By many these two preliminary tremors have been, apparently, in- 

 distinguishable, and are described as one shock lasting for three or four 

 seconds. The interval between the last preliminary tremor and the 

 main shock was estimated to be 5 or 6 seconds. One observer moni- 

 tions a slight shock of short duration about 10 minutes after the severe 

 shock. Continuous tremors occurred for about: half an hour after the 

 main shock, and there were distinct vibrations at various intervals up to 

 8 a.m. causing doors to rattle. 



No unusual sound, save that caused by buildings falling and doors 

 Sound. rattling, is reported. 



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