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A LARGE part of north-western India was severely shaken by an earthquake which occurred on April 4, shortly after six o'clock in the morning, causing the destruction of numerous buildings and the loss of many lives—the number being estimated at twenty thousand. The last great earthquake in India, in June, 1897, was one of the most violent of which there is any historical record, but the casualties and damage due to that disturbance were comparatively small, because the earthquake occurred at five o'clock in the afternoon, when many people were out of doors, and there were no large cities within the area of maximum violence. In the case of the earthquake on April 4, most people were indoors at the time of the shock, and the area of greatest disturbance included, unfortunately, several centres where fairly large towns have grown up, chiefly round the official settlements, cantonments, and sanatoria of the British Government. Dharmsala, Dalhousie, Simla with several neighbouring cantonments, Mussoorie, Dehra Dun, Almora, Ranikhet, and Naini Tal are the chief of these; and the many substantial stone buildings in them have naturally suffered much damage from the earthquake shocks.
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The Indian Earthquake of April 4 . Nature 71, 563–564 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071563a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/071563a0