MEMOTRS 
OF 
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA 
The Srimangal Earthquake of 8th July 1918. By 
Murray Stuart. D.Sc, etc., Offg. Superintendent, 
Geological Survey of India. 
preliminary report of this earthquake has ah'eady been published 
XA- in. the Records of this department,^ and the reader is referred 
to it for a general account of the shock. This present larger work 
is an attempt to bring together a full descriptive record of such 
phenomena of the earthquake as have, or may have, a scientific 
bearing. As the whole of the investigation was carried out by me 
single-handed without the aid of any of my colleagues, it follows 
naturally that fewer first-hand observations were obtained than 
in the case of the Great Indian earthquake of 12th June 1897, or 
of the Kangra earthquake of 4th April 1905, for the former of which 
five officers were detailed from this department for the investiga- 
tion, and for the latter four. Nevertheless a large number of inter- 
esting observations were obtained personally by myself, and many 
more were supplied me by scientific observers from personal observa- 
tions in different parts of the area affected by the earthquake. It is 
therefore hoped that the observations given in the present Memoir are 
as reliable as those given in the reports on previous earthquakes. 
As it was impossible for me to visit all the areas aflected by the 
earthquake I confined my tour to the area where the greatest damage 
INTRODUCTION. 
Bee. Geol. Siirv. India, Vol. XLIX, pL. o. 
