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MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



Travellers' bungalow at 



Summary of damage done. 



Jhatingri 

 Urla . ' 



Mandi 

 Kataula 



Kandi . 

 Bajaura 

 Sultanpur 

 Larji . 



Old and very badly built of fragments of undressed 

 slate and mud mortar. Ruined, outhouses destroyed. 

 Built of rough stone slabs, etc., fitted together with- 

 out any mortar or mud cement and with wooden 

 beams laid horizon tally among the stones at 

 intervals Chimney fell, damage equals Shah pur. 



Chimney standing though much damaged. Roof buokled 

 in places. 



Old and badly built of slate fragments roughly fitted 

 together without any mortar. Destroyed all but 

 one corner. 



Equal to Shahpur. Cross walls fractured and plaster 

 had fallen. 



Partly built . of sun-dried bricks and flat blocks of 

 stone. Half ruined, was being repaired as it stocd. 



Partly ruined but not t-o much as Bajaura, was being 

 repaired as it stood. 



Seriously damaged and not weather proof. Verandah 

 could be used. 



The area includes much high ground such as the culminating ridge 

 Landslides and °^ ^ ne jD nau ladhar lying to the north of the Kan- 

 dust clouds. g ra valley which were characterised, especially near 

 the snow line, by many terrific landslides with occasional dust cloud 

 phenomena as detailed at page 42. The steep slopes in the Parbati R. 

 and those near Larji in the valley of the Beas also fall within this 

 isoseist and were localities that were also the scene of landslips of great 

 size and occasional dust clouds. They also included the temporary 

 formation of two lakes in the Tirthan and Sainj gorges *by landslip 

 dams. Considering the magnitude of these surface displacements of rock 

 and soilcap within isoseist IX, one may freely conjecture how disastrous 

 the results might have been to those colossal slopes (many of which 

 approach or even exceed the limiting angle of stability in such rocks) 

 had they fallen within the next highest isoseist, No. X, instead of only 

 within that of IX. 



The area also includes the Guma and Drang salt mines and the 

 much smashed and powdered rocks in the vicinity of the main boundary 

 fault from which many landslips descended choking the open workings. 



