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goo. According to Mr. A. II. Geyer, Deputy Commissioner, no 

 damage was done in Toungoo or the district. 



Maung Po Tin, Sub-divisional Officer. — A severe shock was felt at 

 ,, VI1 9 a.m., lasting a full minute. With his family 



he went downstairs and when on the ground 

 they continued to feel the shock. A brick wall of the house in which 

 the township judge, Maung Gale, lives, was slightly cracked from top to 

 bottom. The water in the Sittang river was disturbed, the waves 

 moving from E. to W. 



Mr. A. Williamson, Sub-divisional Officer. — Time 9 a.m., not 

 ,-.,„,,. accurately observed. Duration 2 minutes, a 



rough guess. To an unscientific observer the 

 whole phenomenon appeared a wave-like motion, gradually increas- 

 ing to a period of highest intensity and then dying away again. 

 Direction mainly N. and S., as estimated from the swaying of a 

 punkah. The only sounds noticed were the rattling of doors and 

 windows and the creaking of joists. He was writing at the time, 

 and the pr eliminar y tremors were quite sufficient to make it im- 

 possible to continue. 



The clerk to the Sub-divisional Oificer. — The cupboard in the office 



threatened to fall over on to him. From its 

 Shwi gyin. . . . 



position, this indicates a more or less N. — S. 



direction for the shock. Some joists fell from a house in the bazar 



but they were very rotten. Two long cracks were caused in the 



plaster of the Sub-divisional Officer's house, which is a comparatively 



new lateiite building. They run straight up and down in the E. 



and W. walls of one of the rooms. 



Thayetmyo District. 



Mr. R. C. IF. Symms, Deputy Commissioner. — lie did not feel the 



shock on the ground floor of his house. People 

 rhayetmyo. , . . r 



on the first storey noticed it about 8-45 a.m. 



Glasses on tables shook and doors rattled. The direction was from 



N. to S. apparently. No damage of any kind was done in the 



Thayetmyo District. 



The Civil Surgeon. — Time 9-6 a.m. Duration 30 seconds. 



Observer sitting indoors at the time. One Blight 

 1 h.ivci myo. i f i , 



quake was felt, strong enough to move his 



seat a little. No unusual sound phenomena were heard. 



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