1 38 MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA 'EARTHQUAKE. 



platform No. 2, seven rooms in a line have been seriously damaged : 

 the roofs of the Intermediate waiting room and four adjoining offices 

 have fallen, and the roofs of the next two offices are so dangerous aa 

 to necessitate their demolition. Cracks in the Intermediate waiting 

 room were confined to the corners where separation of the walls has 

 taken place. 



In all the above cases the beams supporting the roofs ran trans- 

 versely to the direction of the platforms, i.e., in a direction N. 30° 

 E. to S. 30° W. Owing to the oscillation of the buildings 

 about their long axis, the whole length of the longitudinal wall appears 

 to have separated as a whole from the transverse walls and to have 

 forced the beams out of their sockets. The actual walls are in 

 two or three rooms entirely without cracks. 



Above the roof of one platform was a longitudinal parapet wall 

 supporting in one place a brick stack, into the top of which was fixed 

 a large iron flag. This flag fell from the stack, tearing away with it 

 about a foot of the brickwork, and was projected in a direction at 

 right angles to the parapet wall, viz., towards N. 30° E., and 

 fell about 10 feet away from its own vertical, on to the platform roof 

 through which it tore a large hole and finally dropped on to the 

 platform. 



Weight of flag =8 seers. 



Height of flag— 4 feet. 



Height of top of the stack above the platform =46 feet. 



Height of platform roof above the platform — abt. 10 feet. 



From these data, the horizontal component of the velocity of 

 the flag is about 6*5 feet per second. 



In two opposite walls (direction W. 20° N. to E. 20° S.) in 

 Bible Society's tne first room °* tne Bible Society's premises are 

 premises. two bricked up arches which have moved, causing 



the plaster to fall along the juncture. The second room contains 

 two bricked- up arches in exactly similar positions and similarly 

 affected. 



