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COGGltt BROWN : TnE BURMA EARTHQUAKES OF MAY 1912. 



Maung San Win, Station Master.— Exact time given as 9 a.m., 



and station clock said to have stopped simul- 



Kyaukmc. taneously. Half of the " Pyilonchantha " pagoda 



was broken down. It occupies a site on the top of a hill opposite 



the railway station and was 45 feet high before the earthquake. 



Mr. F. S. Grose, Assistant Superintendent, Northern Shan States. — 



The Mong Long Myosa reported that the shock 



Hsipaw State. ^^ ^^ ^ g> w j.^ ftbont g_ 4 ~ AM 



Almost all the pagodas and images in the western part of the State 

 were either cracked or broken down. The principal disturbance took 

 place at Myinpyu hill in Hsum-hsai. Here from a crack in the cliffs 

 near Myinpyu village, a stream of sand and mud issued, overwhelming 

 one house in a village below, called Hsaihkao, and partially 

 destroying two others. From here the stream turned towards 

 the S. and then to the W., breaking and carrying away trees, 

 and finally subsiding into a bog 1 mile long, 800 yards 

 wide and 4 to 5 feet deep. The whole of this area was turned 

 into a quagmire and a large amount of paddy land destroyed. A 

 man was overwhelmed and carried away in the stream of mud. 

 A great crack of unknown length and depth, and with a width 

 of about 2 yards, opened in the Myinpyu hill. Large rocks and 

 boulders fell from the hillside on to the village below, compelling 

 the inhabitants to abandon it. Landslips also took place in other 

 places notably on the Yebyan Taung. 



A crack was caused in the ground from Kyaukkyan in the 

 Namma circle to the west of Seikpyu, where a hot spring dried up. 

 The site of a deserted village went down 800 feet into paddy land, 

 and landslips were continuing up to the 21st of June. In the 

 same circle the Nam-pan-se stream was completely blocked for 10 days 

 by landslips, through which the water eventually forced a way. 

 In other places smaller streams were also blocked up by landslips. 



Over G00 pagodas were damaged in the Mong Long substate. 



In the rest of Hsipaw the shocks were not so violent, and little 

 harm seems to have been done except to pagodas and brick houses. 

 For the most part it was only the upper portion of the buildings 

 which was thrown down, though cracks appeared everywhere. 



Mr. R> D. Burne, Adviser to the Taumgpeng Sairbica. — A very 



severe shock took place at 9-37 a.m., and lasted 



Namhsan, TawnRpenp; WC H O vor 1 minute. He was on the march and 



saw that the waves approached from the S. S.W. 



