122 COGGIX BROWN: TIIK lil'IIMA EARTHQUAKES OF MAY 1912. 



Toungoo District. 

 Correspondent in the " Rangoon Gazette." - On May 21st at 3 cm., a 



distinct shock lasting 15 seconds was experi- 

 roungoo. , . ' 



enced. IJie same WHter reported that a 



shock was also felt in the early morning a week or so earlier. 



Mr. Walter C. Sherman. A distinct shock a very little after 



3 P.M. on the afternoon of May 21st, 

 roungoo. l9l2 



Mr. \Y . R. Fry. — A distinct shock was experienced at 3 



P.M. on May 21st. It lasted nearlv a 

 roungoo. . 



minute. 



The Sub-divisional Officer. — A shock was felt on May 21st about 

 ,, . 3 or 4 p.m. Duration, about 2 minutes. 



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Direction N. to S. He was writing at the 

 time and the preliminary tremors were quite sufficient to make 

 it impossible to continue. 



Maung Po Tin, Sub-divisional Officer. — A rather severe earthquake, 

 lasting a full minute, was felt at -'5-5 p.m. on 



1 VII. 



May 21st. At the time a local advocate 

 named Maung ISu advised his people to quit the house as he 

 feared the roof would fall in. 



Pegu District. 



Mr. Ormiston, I.C.S., Deputy Commissioner. — On the 21st May a 

 shock was felt at 3-2 i\m. Time taken by 

 a watch regulated by Standard Time. The 

 earthquake was perceptible for about 3 minutes as a series of 

 vibrations rising and falling in intensity. These vibrations were 

 only just visible on the surface of the ink in a large ink-pot 

 on the writer's office table at Pegu. 



Siam. 

 Correspondent in the " Rangoon Gazette." — Time about 3 p.m. on 

 Mongpai. (Lat. i!) c - ^ a 3 21flfc. A short sharp shock preceded 

 3d'; Long. 98°-30' by a trembling of the earth which was distinctly 



felt for some seconds. 

 .... Correspondent in the "Bangkok Times.'" — A 



slight shock was experienced on May 21st. 

 Correspondent in the te Bangkok Times." — A 



Uueugnu. riii • 



slight shock was experienced on May 21st. 



