EPIOENTRAL AND SEVERELY SHAKEN AREAS. 



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caused by a running train, for about \- minute before and until the 

 shock ceased. Duration about 1 minute. 



Sub-Postmaster, Mandalay General Hospital. — Time 8-55 to 8-59 a.m. 

 Duration 3 minutes. A moderate shock, severe for 1 minute. A mail 

 van moved a distance of one yard. An electric tram car stopped in front 

 of the office as the trolley was shaken from the live wire. In 

 his private quarters, things on the table fell off. His wife and 

 baby slipped from one corner to another and very nearly fell from 

 the ladder to the lower floor. The office clock stopped. Owing 

 to the post office being built of wood no damage was caused. 

 " There was some sound observed before shock." 



U. Thin, Sub-divisional Ofjieer. — Time about 9 a.m. Ob- 



u . server is 53 vears old and lias never noticed such 



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a great shock before. It seemed to wave in 

 a N. and S. direction and lasted for about 5 minutes. In the sub- 

 division many pagodas were damaged and some were broken down 

 from I, I, and } of their heights. 



Mr. A. E. Eades of Mandalay. — He was on the top of a hillock, seated 

 „. against a rock, 2 miles N.W. of Zigon, a vil- 



lage about 5 miles N.TC. of Singu, which is 

 itself some 00 miles N. of Mandalay. Time 8-55 a.m., by a reliable 

 watch set to the .Mandalay tower clock. Duration 1 minute and 

 20 seconds. He heard a very distinct tremulous vibration as i ! ' 

 the sound was passing underneath the hill. It seemed like a 

 cavalry charge riding past a saluting base, and as if the charge 

 had started from a long distance away and increased as it came 

 nearer. The shock was distinctly felt, at first as 2 or 3 slight and 

 distinct vibrations, and then one continuous motion like a child's 

 cradle being roughly pushed forwards and backwards. After the 

 principal shock there followed a minor one which was very Blight 

 and jerky. 



Mr. T. Johannes, Station Master.— He was seated at an office table in 

 Myohai ng. a W00(1(M1 building u'hen the severe shock started 



at 8-55 a.m. Duration U minutes, lie ran out 

 and remained standing on the platform, ''which felt like a ship at 

 sea." He suffered from giddiness for the rest of the day. Out of 

 three clocks in use at this station, two in brick buildings stopped, 

 but one in a wooden building did not do so. The pagodas round 

 about were badly damaged and lost their ''litis." Messrs. FinJa .. 

 Fleming and Co.'s dynamite magazine was slightly cracked but 



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