|50 MIDDLEMISB : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



Several other cases have also been recorded in the earthquake forms, 

 Such as those at Amballa (see p. 194) and Dhanaura (see p. 208). 

 A rather mote interesting case than usual is described from Khanki in 



Gujranwala District (see p. 205). There earth fissures in all 

 directions are found in the soft ground 2 miles long on the right bank 

 of the Chenab. There were also 2 holes (craterlefcs) 30 feet in diameter 



I feet deep* from which fissures radiated, the largest being 2 feet 

 wide. Water in great volumes is said to have issued from these 

 fissures. 



The only case of a true rock fissure that seemed to penetrate into 

 the rock and to be connected with and a part of the rock folding of 

 the region was one which I saw at Barwar lake near" Larji. It is 

 among folded limestones and strikes N.W. — S.E. It lay along a line 

 of faulting and had perfectly fresh surfaces. Inasmuch as it dipped 

 or haded into the hillside and not down the slope it was not. (directly 

 at least) connected with any downward sliding with gravity. On the 

 whole it suggested fresh movement along an old fault. 



The shock at Cochin. 



The following account from the Pioneer of 14th April 1905 at 

 first sight would seem to show that the earthquake of the 4th was 

 really felt in the Madras Presidency, and at a considerable distance 

 away from what has been marked as the outermost limits of the 

 felt shock :-••■ 



Earthquake shock at Cochin. — A Cochin correspondent writes under date the 

 6th instant: — A distinct shock of earthquake was felt here on the morning -of 

 Tuesday last, 4th April, at 6-30, the occurrence being of a very extraordinary 

 nature. While the Bishop's Secretary was preparing for his morning service in the 

 Cathedra], he felt a tremor in his room in the Bishop's residence. While going 

 into the Chapel he saw the lamp that was burning there, suspended from the 

 ceiling, moving to and fro. All the inmates of the Bishop's house felt the shock, 

 ft lasted for a few seconds, the wave travelling from east to west, What was 

 most extraordinary in this connection was that the shock was felt in that building 

 only, and nowhere else in Cochin., as I learnt from enquiries. The Bishop's resi- 

 dence is situated on an eminence which was once the part of a Portuguese rampart 

 and it is unaccountable how I Ling alone experienced the shock. 



