TIME OF EARTHQUAKE AND RATE OF PROPAGATION OF SHOCK. $3 



of the province, a closer approximation is visible, as can be seen 

 from the lollowing list : — 



Mandalav Time. 



-07 

 8-66 

 8-66 



8-55 

 8-55 



8-55 

 8-55 



Standard. 



Nojst an( Ian Instated 

 No standard stated 

 Clocks stopped 



Railway Time 

 Posl Offioe Clock . 

 Station Time • 

 Mandalav Clock Tower 



Observer. 



Meteorological Reporter. 



Secretary to Municipality. 



Deputy Superintendent, Signal 

 Office. 

 Sub-Postmaster, Police lines. 



,, ,, . Hospital. 



Station Master, Myohaung. 

 Mr. Bades, Zigon. 



From this list other times which are uncorrected or which are 

 obvious guesses, are omitted. The time given by the Meteorologi 

 cal Reporter cannot be correct, for the clocks in the Mandalav 

 telegraph office had stopped at 8-56 a.m., which was doubtless 



some time after the first violent movement had affected them. 



Turning now to Maymyo, the following list gives the more 

 exact times which have been gathered together : — 



Time. 



8-66 " exact 

 between 8-66 and 8-57 

 8-55 



Observer. 



Director of Telegraphs. 



Post master. 



Deputy Superintendent, Bfanda- 

 lav, Signal Office. 



The Postmaster in Maymyo informed me that his clock is regu- 

 lated by " gun time." I thereupon communicated with Capt. A. 

 Thorp, the officer under whose orders the daily gun was fired in 

 Maymyo and who replied as follows : — 



"The gun is supposed to he fired in accordance with the time kept by 

 the railway station clock and 1 scud a watch to he cheeked by it every 

 morning, but as the station clock is a very indifferent one, the amount that 

 the watch (a very good timekeeper) differs from it varies 4 or 5 minutes 

 every day. I do not alter the watchr daily so can Only say that gun time 

 is approximately railway station time. I have no record now (duly 7th. 



M)lL') how much difference there was on 23 rd May so that I am 



in a position to say that by gun time the earthquake on May 23rd took 

 place a few minutes before !t a. .At.'' 



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