20 0OGKHN BROWN : HIE BURMA EARTHQUAKES OF MAY 1912. 



the detonator magazine which is smaller and lower, remained in- 

 tact. After the main shock there were slighter ones at short inter- 

 vals up to 9-2 a.m. Again at 9-44 a.m., at 11-30 a.m., and the 

 last at 3-15 p.m. 



Mr. R. C. J. Sirinhor, Barrister of Mandalay. — He noticed that long 



stacks of bricks piled near the railway sta- 

 NLyohaung. . ** i i • 



turn at Myohaung and running in a N. and S. 



direction had the bricks at the S. end shaken off. This appears to 



indicate that the impulse was imparted to the heaps from the 



north. Of the 10 pagodas built in a straight line just outside the 



railway station at Myohaung, no less than 8 were badly damaged. The 



' hti," and some of the lower parts having in most cases fallen down. 



Maymyo Sub-division, Mandalay District. 



Maymyo Town. — Maymyo town and cantonment lie on the fringe 

 of the plateau of the Slum States, forty-three miles by road east 

 of Mandalay, and at a height of about 3,500 feet above the sea. 

 (Mandalay itself is only 315 feet above mean sea-level.) The 

 hollow in the plateau in which the town is situated is some 1 

 square miles m extent, and is surrounded on all sides by low hills, 

 rising on the N.W. to the Thit-tabin-taung, some 4,000 feet in 

 height. The town itself consists of a long bazaar of brick and 

 wood houses and large numbers of bungalows inhabited by Euro- 

 peans, fol it is the summer Capital of the province. It is also the 

 headquarters of a British and a native regiment, the barracks 

 being of more massive construction than the usual type of 

 European building in Burma. Maymyo Buffered more from the earth- 

 quake than any other town, as will be evident from the follow- 

 ing pages. From the official reports of the damage caused, which 

 1 owe to the courtesy of the Hon'ble Mr. V. St. (I. .Manners- 

 Smith, C.I.E., Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Burma, 

 the following details are taken : — 



Military Police Lines. — The long barracks of brick in mud have 

 had their end walls damaged, the walls having fallen over at the tops. 

 The kitchen and married men's quarters suffered in a similar manner. 



Mr. Butcher's qttarters.—'Uhe walls of the kitchen and stable 

 have come down. 



Civil Hospital. — Damage not very serious. Besides cracks in 

 various parts of the buildings, there are parts of the wall off in 

 the Civil Surgeon's room, and the European ward kitchen. 



