g COGGIN BROWN: THE Bl'HMA KAIiTHQUAKEB OF MAY I9l2. 



Accounts from Mandalay state that the severe shock was felt 

 about 9 a.m. on the morning of the 23rd. It lasted about a minute 

 and caused much damage which would have been enormous had the 

 shaking continued a little longer. The Leper Asylum was cracked 

 in every direction. The Roman Catholic cathedral was very badly 

 cracked. The mosque in B. road lost ten feet at the top. The 

 Wesleyan School had a loose mass of masonry resting over nearly 

 every doorway. The 20, 000 gallon water tank in the Zeygyo 

 Bazaar, and the Tramway oil tanks slopped about like carelessly 

 carried band-basins. During the shocks inmate's of houses bolted 

 into the open. Later accounts described t he dismantling and repairing 

 which was going on in various parts of the city. 



Prom TaNinggyi came tin 1 news that the shock lasted over one 

 minute there and caused considerable damage to the buildings in 

 the station. The telegraph office suffered most and the staff had 

 to take to tents. Almost all chimneys were thrown down or 

 cracked, while the military hospital, treasury and military police 

 quarter guard were in a critical condition. 



At Mogok numerous foreshocks were felt, but most damage was 

 caused by the shock which occurred about 9 a.m. on May 23rd. 

 Almost all the brick buildings in the town were cracked while no 

 less than 00 pagodas fell down. Owing to damage caused to 

 waterpipes by falling rocks, the electric supply of the Ruby Mines 

 Company, Ltd., was interfered with and the place was in darkness 

 for two nights. 



Reports also appeared from Meiktila. Toungoo, Sagaing, Hsipaw, 

 Gokteik, Kalaw, Yamethin. Bhamo. Rangoon and various towns in 

 Siam, which will be referred to later. It is proposed to arrange all 

 the accounts which have been received according to the adminis- 

 trative divisions of the province, commencing first with those districts 

 in Upper Burma where the shock of May 23rd was most severely 

 felt. 



