EARTHQUAKES IN BURMA
THIRTY A DAY
LITTLE NOTICE TAKEN
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
DELHI, January 23. (Received January 24, at 12.5 p.m.) Frequent earth tremors at Htawgaw on the Sino-Burmese frontier are believed to presage the reopening of an old volcano in Upper Burma. Htawgaw is a hill of decomposed granulite, and was formerly the site of a fort which was shaken to bits in 1929 and abandoned. Thirty shocks daily are occurring, but as the neighbouring villages are comprised of thatched bamboo huts, little notice, of them is taken. The origin has been traced to a fault in Lagwi Pass, twenty miles away. It is believed that they are shocks asso : dated with the tremors in Dhurbri (Assam), and it is thought likely that a large scale earthquake threatens the localities.
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Evening Star, Issue 21318, 24 January 1933, Page 7
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