EPICENTRAL AND SEVERELY SHAKEN AREAS. 49 



Court House. — Several of the panels at the top of the first floor 

 were dismantled. 



JaU.—A.t the junction of the roof and the stone wall of the 

 guard house several stones worked loose and had to he removed. 

 All the arches were slightly cracked. The greater portion of the 

 outside of the jail wall contained a horizontal crack at half its 



height. 



Opium Shop. — The walls of the opium cooking room were badly 



cracked. 



Forest Office. — The chimney was dismantled at the roof level. 



P. W. D. Inspection Bungalow. — Two out of the three chimneys 

 foil and had to be dismantled. 



The Assistant. Superintendent, Kodauwj Hill Tracts. — He experienced 



severe shocks in his cam]) on the 23rd, and 

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subsequently iound that most ot the pagoda, 1 ? 



round the hills, including a number of very ancient ones, had 

 crumbled. 



Mr. L. James, Superintendent of Telegraphs, Sagaing Division. — 

 Time about 8-55 a.m. It was not a sudden 

 shock, and he continued breakfast for some 

 seconds before it became obvious that the quake was more prolonged 

 and severe than the minor ones which had preceded it. After leaving 

 the bungalow he observed the surface of the ground in waves, the 

 crest of which appeared to face W. As the shock continued the pagoda 

 tops in and around the dak bungalow compound gradually got up a 

 swing, — there was ample time to speculate whether the top would fall 

 or not, — and the very large amplitude attained before actual collapse 

 took place was remarkable. The damage done was entirely due to the 

 very long duration of the shock, and if it had continued a little longer 

 the damage would have been very much greater than was actually 

 the case. Most of the pagoda tops fell, and those which were 

 observed went over in every case towards the W. All the bottles 

 in the bungalow fell towards the W. and nearly all the coffee 

 in the breakfast cups was slopped over on to the cloth on the 

 same side. 



There was a very sudden and severe shock about 11 a.m. of an 

 entirely different character. It was more in the nature of a blow 

 and was over in a second. In this case no damage was done. 

 Minor shocks continued for two or three weeks after the 23rd. 



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