24 STUADT : THH Rni:\I.\\GAL EARTHQUAKE OF 8TH JT'LY 1918. 
different in weight and size, did not fall. The pictures fell from a 
wall running west and east. None of the bottles in the dispensary 
were overturned." 
A certain amount of damage seems to have been done to buildings, 
but only such as were old or very weak. 
The railway was little damaged tliroughout tliis area. The 
outpouring of sand and mud by the side of the railway was parti- 
cularly noticeable along the Mymensingh-Netrakona line and the 
borrow-pits were filled up in many places. The railway bridge at 
Netrakona was damaged through subsidence of the river banks and 
the railway station well at Conrigram sank out of sight. Here also 
the two sides of a triangle of railway line used as a turntable were 
considerably bent, one rail being found to have a curvature equivalent 
to a radius of 30 feet. The base of the triangle, which was facing 
the epicentre, and approximately at right angles to the direction in 
which the waves came, was not affected. 
The railway embankment between Mymensingh and Kishorganj 
sank in many places and effectually blocked the line. About 
1 mile east of Biskra station, just to the north of the railway line, 
there were several stacks of newly made bricks. Most of the 
stacks fell over to east-south-east, and a few to north-north-east. 
In addition to the area just described there seems to have been 
another area of intensity IV situated under the Bay of Bengal, 
just off the coast of Arrakan, the north-eastern portion of w^hich 
includes Alcyab. Its existence is indicated from the reports of the 
Meteorological Observer at Akyab and of the Deputy Commissioner, 
and also from the unexpected course followed by the two outer 
isoseists, Nos. 5 and 6, tlirough central Burma. Its shape appears 
to have been elliptical with the long axis running approximately 
north and south, indicating a subsidiary slip along a vault running 
approximately north and south just oft" the coast of Arrakan. The 
only reports from this subsidiary area come from Akyab and are : — 
Report of J. Gddflard, Deputy Suferintendent of TelegrajJis, Alyab, 
Super intemlent of Observatory, Akyah.—Y\mQ of earthquake, about 
17 hours (Burma Standard Time) ; Duration of Shock, about 90 
seconds ; Situation of Observer, Standing out in the street ; Number 
of shocks, two separate shocks, the second one being very severe ; 
Sounds, towards the end a noise was heard similar to the breaking 
of a bundle of sticks ; Direction, south-west and north-east. 
The shock was strong enough to be felt by everyone, to make doors 
