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COGGIN BROWN: THE BURMA EARTHQUAKE8 OF MAY 1012. 



tlic time for this latter place and that at which the .shock was felt 

 in Mogok, he writes that as there were a number of shocks 

 dming the day, it is probable that the first one was not noticed 

 in Thabeikkyin. In Mogok. the shock at 8-5(5 a.m. was preceded 

 by tremulous vibrations, and by 8 sound resembling distant thun- 

 der. Its duration is reported to have been 50 seconds, and its 

 direction E.— W. The ground is described as rising and Calling like 

 the waves of the sea. All brick buildings suffered from the shock 

 and the tops of pagodas collapsed, the ruins falling in a S.W. 

 direction. The cracks in walls were more or less perpendicular. 

 He was absent from the station on the day, but on his return made 

 an examination and noticed that the pagodas had been affected 

 in a peculiar way. They had crumbled down on one side almost 

 as if they bad been sliced with a knife, parallel to the side in 

 question, and their " : litis"' had fallen over on the crumbled sides. 



Besides the broken pagodas in the Mogok valley, the principal 

 damage was done to the Government buildings of the station. 

 In the houses of Government officers, which consist of wooden posts 

 and frames with brick panels, the gable panels were shaken and 

 could be seen rocking during the shocks. In one case a panel fell 

 into the house, the direction of the fall being towards the N.W. 

 The wall from which this fall occurred was along the fine of 

 what he took to be the general direction of the earthquake at this 

 point. In the court-house which is two-storeyed and lies at an 

 angle of 45 decrees to the general direction of the earthquake, a 

 few of the top panels in the upper floor which had rocked were 

 removed at once as they were considered unsafe. Compared with 

 the damage done to the other houses, that caused to the court- 

 house was inconsiderable, the reason for this being that the length 

 of the court-house was at the given angle to the general direction 

 of the earthquake. In various houses five brick chimneys were so 

 badly damaged that they had to be dismantled, three from roof level 

 and two from the base. In the jail, a two-storeyed masonry building, 

 in addition to the cracks over the arches, most of the stones filled 

 in between the top of the wall and the roof, came loose and had 

 to be removed. It is said that this stone filling was probably 

 inferior work. This building lies at an angle of 45' to the gene- 

 ral direction of the earthquake, and the long jail walls at the 

 back showed a horizontal crack at mid-height. In the Deputy Com- 

 missioner's house which faces S. E., most of the plaster was brought 



