Ig COGGIN BROWN: THE BURMA EARTHQUAKES OF MAY 1012. 



a high speed engine is running. Tn fact at the outset lie thought 

 that the engine in the factory had " run away." 



Mr. M. Paul, let Assistant, St. Xavier's School. Mandalay. — A 

 rumbling noise attended by vibrations preceded the very severe shock, 

 which was felt at 8-40 A.M (guessed), and lasted for 40 seconds. 

 The "litis" of big pagodas dropped off. The walls of the fort 

 cracked and portions crumbled down. The. water in the moat 

 danced to a height of 1 foot. Almost- all buildings in the town 

 cracked in all directions, and many of their ornamental fronts 

 tumbled down. The mosque in B, road lost its minaret and was 

 much damaged. The Cathedral swayed and the bell in it, rang; 

 the back portion was very much damaged and the bricks fell towards 

 the E. and W. It now seems to slant a little to the south. In 

 a piece of ground near the fort walls, two cracks were formed, each 

 measuring about 12 feet in length and about 2 inches in breadth. 

 There were 5 slightly felt aftershocks. 



Mr. E. C. Beresford-Pamell, Mandalay. — The station clock, about 

 half a mile away from the observer's house, stopped at 8-55 a.m. He 

 was sitting in a chair facing 8. and felt himself thrown in the 

 same direction. He ran into the compound and still facing south, 

 saw the earth moving towards him in waves about 1 foot high 

 and about 2 feet distant from each other. Cannot state how far 

 E. and W. the waves reached, but noticed the cook, at least 50 

 feet away, swaying backwards and forwards as he was doing. Dura- 

 tion between 50 and 60 seconds, calculated afterwards by 3 wit- 

 nesses. All the cracks in the building were at right angles to the 

 earth's plane. The S. wall, cunning E.- — W.. bulged outwards from 

 |rd of its height to the top. and had to be dismantled and re- 

 built, 



Superintendent of the Observatory, Mandalay. — Time 8-57 a.m. Dura- 

 tion 3 minutes. One shock followed by 5 or (i slight ones during the day. 

 A sound was heard during the shock which conveyed the impression 

 that a heavy engine was moving over the road close by. Permanent 

 shelves with their contents were thrown down. Plaster and bricks 

 fell from walls and injured a hospital servant. About 10 feet of 

 the upper part of a pagoda fell down as if cut with a knife. Walls 

 of brick buildings were so cracked as to render them unsafe. 



Sul>- Post master, Mandalay Military Police Lines. — Time 8-55 a.m.. 

 by office clock set to railway time. A sound was heard like that 





