17() MIDDLKMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



Each of two small cylindrical minarets standing over the entrance 

 gateway of the mosque shewed a conspicuous ver- 

 tical crack. The direction of the gateway was N. 

 E. to S. W., and the direction of the planes in which the cracks lay 

 was in both cases N.N. E. to S. S.W., the shock apparently having 

 struck the mosque from the E. S. E. 



House (i), two-storied— burnt brick with plaster. The N. wall 

 of the upper story throughout the length of three rooms fallen out, 

 and there is a very wide crack in the side wall. House (ii), one- 

 storied. Has fallen down. House (iii), rudely built, with thin walls. 

 Has fallen. House (iv), two-storied — dangerously cracked. House 

 (v), has four stories and an attic. Upper story cracked. House (vi), 

 four-storied. Upper story dangerously cracked and partly fallen. 

 House (vii), two-storied. Upper story fell. There were several three- 

 storied and some four-storied houses in the bazar. All these were 

 cracked in the upper stories at least. Some loose bricks fell from 

 N. — S. wall 12 ft. high, but none from a similar E. — W. wall. 



A lamp hanging in a bedroom by an iron rod about 12 feet long 



was seen by one observer to swing somewhat 



Direction ami In- obliquely across a room, through an arc of about 



tensity. x ' ' ° 



2 feet. The path described, however, was not a 

 straight line but a very much elongated ellipse whose major axis pointed 

 \V. 30° N. and E. 30° S. 



A second observer describes a lamp swinging from a similar iron 

 rod in a direction N. 20° W. to S. 20° E ., the path being a straight line 

 as far as could be seen. 



A lamp in the Military prison was seen to swing E. to W. 



The covers of four telegraph instruments in telegraph office fell off 

 towards the W. on to the tables. These covers were so placed on the 

 sides of the instruments that no moderate shock except one from 

 approximately E. or W. could have dislodged them. A violent shock 

 from the N. E., S. W., N. W., or S. E. might have done so, but a shock 

 from the N. or S. would almost certainly have left them in place. 



In the Telegraph Master's private quarters, a lamp was seen to 

 swing due E. and W. as lar as can be remembered. 



