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COGGIN BROWN: THE BURMA EARTHQUAKES OF MAY LQ12. 



first lasted about 15 seconds with tremors for sonic '20 seconds after- 

 wards. The second lasted longer than the first and took place 

 some 10 or 15 seconds afterwards. Apparent direction from K. to 

 \Y\. judging from the motion of water in a wide-mouthed jar filled 

 to the brim. Both he and his wife Buffered afterwards from giddi- 

 ness. Nothing was upset in the house and no damage was caused. 

 Mr. de Facieu. — Time about 8-45 or 8-50 a.m. He was on the 

 veranda of the Deputy Commissioner's court- 

 house, and distinctly felt, the building sway 

 several times in about 2 minutes. There was no accompanying 

 sound, neither were any objects in the building displaced or 

 overturned. He thinks that what he felt were more like tremors 

 than distinct shocks, and very unlike any earthquake he has ex- 

 perienced before. Not a building in the town was damaged or 

 cracked. The effect of the shock was to induce in several persons 

 a feeling of Blight nausea. 



Hospital cool; and Sub- Assistant Surgeon, Military Police Hos- 

 pital, — Both felt a slight shock about 9 a.m. 

 Mi, " wl> - Direction from E. to W. It was not experi- 



enced by the Civil Surgeon who was in a launch on the liver. 

 Mr. W. Hipl('!h Sub-divisional O/jiccr.— X distinct shock at 9-30 

 a.m. on the 23rd May. No preliminary 

 Thekemyanng. Yabe tremors were felt, but several smaller tremulous 



forest reserve. . . ^ . , . »^ ,. 



vibrations were distinctly felt alter the main- 

 shocks. Time of duration from 10 to 20 seconds. Direction 8. E. 



N, W.. judged by water, by the movements of objects and 



shadows of trees, etc., at the time of the shock. Water bottles 

 and hats said to have fallen and overturned. No particular sounds 

 were noticed before or afterwards. On the Kith, very peculiar 

 sounds were heard towards the N., by villagers and himself, at a 

 place called Inywagyi in the Myothit township, in the morning 

 and afternoon. When the villagers were questioned they said they 

 had never heard such peculiar rumblings before, and could not under- 

 stand them. They were of long duration and not very loud. 



Mr. H. Marsland, Public Works Department. — He was riding on a 



pony between these two places and did not 

 Between Myothit and j ^j anything. No buildings. Government or 



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private, in the Magwe district were damaged. 



The shock must have been very slight in Magwe, as a masonry building. 



which had partially collapsed a month or so before, whilst it was 



