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nearly 10 seconds. Trem. vibrations lasted for 2 minutes. Direction 

 N. E.— S. W. The rumbling noise continued till after the second shock 

 and then faded away. No serious damage or loss of life. Two or 3 old 

 houses fell down. Rows of birch trees swung E. — W. for several minutes 

 after the shock subsided. Dust haze, yellow and very heavy, preceded 

 the shock by a few days. 



Raja-mi [Riasi District, Jammu Province). — Mr. W..S. Talbot, I.C.S. 

 Settlement Commissioner. He was in a tent in bed. No trem. vibra 

 tions noticed. Main shock rather of the nature of an almost conti 

 nuous oscillation. Duration abuut 1 minute. Very distinctly felt 

 Observer was awakened by the rocking of the bed, but did not get up 

 Direction E. — W. rather than N. — S. No particular damage noticed 

 No sound. He also visited the following places : — Darhal, Budil, Poni 

 Riasi, Udhampur, Chineni, Ramban, Banihal, Vernay and Islamnagar. 

 He noticed very little damage, a small pakka fort collapsed at Riasi and 

 some ordinary native houses at Udhampur. 



Sangri (Aus R.) } lit. 33° 22', long. 74° 50'— Mr. C. M. P. Wright, 

 Kashmir Mineral Co. His camp was on the river gravel just at the 

 junction of the Murree rocks and the Ruling and Supra-Kuling series. 

 The shock was felt slightly. 



Segpoora (Ootur Machipooi Dist.). — Lieutenant-Colonel S. D. 

 Turnbull, retired list. He was lying down in bed on the ground floor 

 of a Kashmir 3-storied ''lurry." Two shocks were most distinctly felt 

 with constant trem. vibrations between, and possibly before, the main 

 shock. Duration 2 or 3 minutes. Direction E. — W. by movements of 

 bed, and N. — S. by rope with clothes. He was on the point of leaving 

 the house " lurry" but did not do so as it was a new one and likely to 

 stand. 



Skardu (Ladak Dist.). — Gandamall, Meteorological Observer. He 

 was indoors lying down at first but got up immediately to watch the 

 occurrence. Three terrible shocks of equal intensity followed by trem. 

 vibrations. Intervals of 4 or 5 seconds. Direction N. — S. by water. 



-ounds. Timbers of roof were crashing very frightfully and branches 

 of trcesmoving up and down. 



