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MIDDLEMISS : KANGRA EARTHQUAKE. 



are 1 limited to the day before, and the early morning of the actual day 

 of the earthquake. The evidence for one about 2 a.m. on the latter 

 date is the most substantiated. The list is arranged chronologically. 



Date and time. 



Place and authority. 



Remarks. 



3rd April 1905 between 



Amritsar, Lieutenant J. G. Skene, 



He thought he felt a 



8 and 12 noon. 





5th Gurkha Rifles. 



shock. 



3rd April, il p.m. 



* 



Nagina, U. P.,* Meteorological 

 Signaller. 



Two seconds' duration. 



ith », 1-30 a.m. 



, 



Simla, M. S. D'Cruz 



Very slight shock felt 



. 







on 3rd floor. 



, n 2 a.m. 





Nagina, U. P., Meteorological 

 Signaller. 



Two seconds' duration. 



it t* >' 



# 



Meerut, U. P., R. Bruce Spils- 



One and-a-half minutes' 







bury, , Assistant Engineer, 



duration, slight, rat- 







P. W. D. 



tled crockery and 

 woke him up. 



»» »> 



. 



Simla, Statesman of 9th April . 



Awoke many people. 



4th April between 



3 



Mussoorie, Miss Hope of " Clair- 



She heard creaks and 



and 4 a.m. 





ville." 



dogs barked. 



4th April, 4 a.m. 



# 



Amritsar, F. W. Schonemann, 



His wife heard a door 







Executive Engineer t Bari Doab 



rattle, and Mr. 







Canal. 



Roberts in the same 

 house thought it was 

 thieves. 



>» »> » 



. 



Kandi Travellers' Bungalow, 



Heard boards rattling 







Kulu, Rev. J. Tunbridge, 



which his wife de- 







C. M. S. 



clared to be an earth- 

 quake. 



„ „ about 5-30 



Sardhana, Meerut District, Hira 





A.M. 





Lai, Sub-Postmaster. 





In addition to the above Mr. R, L. Bormaud, Panjab Educational 

 Department (retired), in his earthquake form mentions that subter- 

 ranean sounds of the nature of Barisal Guns (see p. 177) which have 

 been common in Ludhiana for long ages, were heard with peculiar 

 loudness a few days before the earthquake, whilst since the shock there 



has been a lull. 



2. — Aftershocks. 



In contradistinction to foreshocks, the occurrence of aftershocks 

 succeeding any big earthquake is a matter of uni- 

 versal experience. Immediately after the big shock 



General remarks. 



