lie OOC.GIN BROWN: THE BURMA EARTHQUAKES OF MAY 1012. 



river. Water and sand bubbled forth from them. On July 15th 

 1012. Tun Min, Deputy Superintendent of Police, reported to the 

 Deputy Commissioner in Kyaukse that the fissure had been 

 covered up by cultivators ploughing over it, and that only an 

 irregular crack was then visible. He thought that the proximity 

 of the Zawgyi river accounted for the expulsion of the sand and 

 water owing to "a waterway under the earth connected with 

 the river being closed up, bv a mass of earth falling on it."' The 

 formation of earth fissures, sand vents and allied phenomena lias 

 been very fully discussed by Oldham in the case of the Assam 

 earthquake of 1897. ' 



At Shwemyo in the Pyinmana District the water-level rose 



some 15 feet during May and June. The 

 Changes in -water- . ,- , , * . 



level at Shwemyo. previous year wells had to be sunk about 



30 feet before water waB reached, but in 

 1912 water was available from 10 to 15 feet down. As the rains 

 of 1912 and 1011 were both scanty and early, it has been sug- 

 gested that the earthquake may have affected the water-level in 

 this neighbourhood. 



1 Oldham : Lor. <•//., pp. 85-1 1 1 



