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The bungalow used as a rest-house near the (iokteik railway station 



, ., was shattered and rendered uninhabitable. Land- 

 Damage ai Gokteik. i-^ii .1 if i 1 



slips took place m the gorge itself, and large 



rocks fell from the roof of the cave through which the stream in 



the bottom of the gorge flows. Two landslips occurred near the 



tunnels beyond the station, while the viaduct itself was very 



slightly displaced. 



From a perusal of the detailed accounts of the damage in 



, , Mandalav. it might be thought that the shock 



Damage m Mandalay. , . . ' 



reached a higher intensity there than in 



Maymyo, but two considerations have led me to the opposite 

 conclusion. 



Mandalay is built on a thick cushion of alluvium which fills 

 in the bottom of the Irrawaddy valley, and it is well known that 

 actual sinking of the ground in such situations, can wreck and 

 injure buildings independently of any elastic vibration communi- 

 cated to them from the ground, and on the motion of which the 

 intensity of the shock itself depends. 



Again, the age and construction of the buildings which collapsed 



in Mandalay compare very unfavourably with those of the newer 



and better built ones in Maymyo. situated as they are on the 



plateau of the Shan States. Witnesses declare that it was very 



difficult to stand during the shock in Mandalay. The ground 



between the fort wall and the moat was cracked in places. Three 



quarters of the brick structures in the city were more or less 



cracked, and nearly every pagoda and brick monastery was damaged. 



At llsipaw the railway medical store and various places of 



business were badly damaged. In Mogok and 



Daraago at other Xaungffvi brick Hogging buildings suffered in 



the same way as in Maymyo. In both these 

 towns every masonry structure seems to have been more or less 

 damaged. Collapsed and shattered chimney stacks were common, 

 and cracks in walls over doors and windows, especially in north 

 and south and in cross partition walls, were very generally caused. 

 Considerable damage of a similar kind was caused to the Govern- 

 ment buildings in Meiktila. Cracks opened in alluvium for a length 

 of 150 feet, and gave forth sand and water near the Zawgvi river 

 to the south of Kyaukse railway station. Throughout the area 

 enclosed by isoseismal VIII the majority of the Burmese and 

 Shan pagodas were wholly or partially broken down. 



