14 COGGIN BBOWN: THE BUBMA EARTHQUAKES OF MAY 1912. 



In the wall coursing nortli and south there were wide intersecting 

 cracks which made angles of 53° — 55° with the horizontal. In the 

 wall running east and west a single crack met the ground at 55°. 

 The eastern end wall of the cathedral was thoroughly cracked from 

 top to bottom. The walls of the steeple running in a north and 

 south direction contained great cracks for at least half their height. 



Sal ween /louse. —A two-storeyed brick building used as an hotel 

 was so badly damaged that it had to be dismantled. 



Leper Home. — A heavy three-storeyed brick building with a 

 brick tower supported on massive pillars. The main block runs 

 east and wost. Large cracks traversed the building from north to 

 south. The pillars supporting the tower were cracked in many 

 places and were bulging out at the time of my visit. 



Wesley an Boys School. — A series of two-storeyed flat-topped 

 masonry buildings oriented east and west and north and south. The 

 walls coursing cast and west were very much cracked but those 

 running north and south were hardly damaged. 



Wesley an Church. — A brick building some 9G feet long, facing 

 north and south. In both long walls running north and south there 

 was a well marked horizontal crack about 4 feet from the ground. 

 This could be followed along for half the length of the building, 

 just below the base of the windows, the arches of which were not 

 damaged. The eastern wall was also cracked vertically in two 

 places. 



Mandalay Clock Tower. — The spire of this tower was cracked in 

 the middle and bent over towards the north. 



I noticed that in the case of many of the flat-topped Burmese 

 houses in Mandalay, which are built partly of brick and partly of 

 wood, the wooden railings used as parapets for the roofs were often 

 knocked over. In the case of walls coursing north and south this 

 was very frequently the case, but it was not so common on walls 

 running east and west. 



Mandalay Railway Station. — A long series of brick buildings 

 of massive construction, the central one surmounted by a clock 

 tower. I noticed many small recent cracks in some of the walls 

 and in the main entrance arches, but they did not follow any 

 particnlar direction. There were bigger cracks between the window 

 frames and the brickwork. 



Amarapura. — The "hti " of the large pagoda in the centre of 

 the old city of Amarapura was cracked in the middle and bent over 



