EPICENTRAL AND SEVERELY. SHAKEN AREAS. |g 



towards tlic north. Tlie " liti " and greater part of the top of the 

 large pagoda which marks the site of the north-east corner of the 

 old city were smashed away. 



Accounts from Maxdai.av and DISTRICT. 

 Mr. P. N. Manackjee, Secretary to the Municipality. — Time 8-5;") 

 , , a.m. The shock came in gentle undulations 



Manil.-uny. 



from the N. N. W. and lasted for one minute. 

 He has resided in Mandalay since 1880 and gave the information 

 that there were yearly shocks after that date for 5 years, since 

 when there has been a period of quiescence. 



Mr. R. 0. J. Swinhoe. Barrister. — Time about 9 a.m. He was 

 seated working in his office, a one-storeyed brick building, when 

 the shock commenced with a gentle shaking. This quickly became 

 very severe and lie (led into the open with his clerks, as the plaster 

 began to fall from the walls. Outside they could only stand with 

 great difficulty. The houses »11 around were shaking, and they 

 saw the Mahommedan mosque collapse. The movement was from 

 N. to S. and appeared to be a shaking directly underfoot rather 

 than wave motion. It lasted l minute and caused sickness ; 

 towards the end, the road was noticed to be heaving in gentle 

 undulations. In his residence ornaments had all fallen towards the 

 north, and the lid of a Pegu jar was also knocked oil in the s;mie 

 direction. 



Rev. T. Phillips, Mandalay. — The movement came in gentle un- 

 dulations with four big vibrations which are compared to a monsoon 

 wave hitting a ship. Duration Ml minutes. Schoolmaster and boys 

 ran out of school but had to kneel on the road as thev could not 

 stand. Some of the school girls fainted. 



The Postmaster, Mandalay.— la answer to my enquiry, wrote 

 that no one in the Post Office kept a note of the exact time of the 

 shock, but that it was about 9 a.m. 



Mr. J. Owen, Deputy Super intcwlcnt, Mandalay Signal Office.— 

 The shock was noted at 8-4G a.m. at the Mandalay Telegraph Office 

 when the clock stopped. 



Mr. II . C. CantriU, District Engineer, Burma Railways, Mandalay. — 

 Time according to railway clocks was just about 9 a.m. The time 

 recorded by one Station Master was 8-57 a.m. Many clocks appear to 

 have Stopped at the. start of the severe tremors. One observer stated 

 that the sound before the earthquake was quite apparent and resem- 



