50 COGGIN BROWN: THE BURMA EARTHQUAKES OF MAY 1912. 



Kyaukse District. 



Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Cronin, LA., Deputy Commissioner.— -Bib 



officers generally reported the chief shock of the 



KyauW ' 23rd at 9 a.m., which agrees with his persona] 



experience. He had time to go downstairs and outside, and watched 



the tinials on the roof of the house which were swaying from side to 



side. Almost immediately afterwards a pagoda in the vicinity came 



down with a crash and fell N.W. The tops of over a dozen pagodas 



in Kyaukse were thrown down, in most instances falling to the W. 



and N., while several more were similarly injured in Alvittha. The 



iron stays holding the racks to the walls of the record room, were 



dragged out on both sides. In his house the cross beams of the 



ceilings running N. — S. moved out and showed about one inch of 



the impainted portion at the ends. He also inspected the cracks 



which opened for a length of 150 feet approximately, about a mile 



S. of Kyaukse hill, within some 50 feet of the bank of the Zawgyi 



river, and noticed sand and water bubbling out. 



Mr. Hampton, Sub-divisional Officer. — Time 9-10 a.m., by a watch 

 adjusted to railway time a day or two previ- 

 ously. His house which is built on posts. 

 swayed N. — S. The ground appeared to move N. A distinct rumbling 

 was heard just before and during the shock. 



Mr. W. A. Talbot, Station Master. — Time 8-57 a.m., " began by a 

 crying wind running east and west which con- 

 tinued so and ended laterly from south to north, 

 the full time this lasted was a minute and a hiilf or may be some 

 few seconds more. ? He was in the station office when the shock 

 besan and ran out on to the platform. He thought that the earth 

 was shifting along E. and W. with a continued tremor. The 

 station clock on the E. wall of the ground floor was not stopped, 

 but a private clock upstairs in the centre of the N. wall Stopped 

 after it struck 9 a.m., just over a minute after the shock actually 

 subsided. The pendulum on being examined was slanted W. The 

 masonry walls of the building were disintegrated for a foot deep on 

 the top along the roof, and five cracks about ] inch wide appeared 

 over the arches of the doors and windows in the cases of 2 on 

 the W., 2 on the N., and 1 on the S. Those on the E. were not 

 damaged. Just a mile south of Kyaukse station and close to the 

 Zawgyi river, a crack about 30 feet long appeared, from which fine 



