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THE India Office has issued a general survey of the effects of the earthquake. The number of lives lost would appear to be in the neighbourhood of six thousand. The destruction of houses is greatest in the towns of North Bihar and Monghyr, especially Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur and Motihari. Outside the towns, the principal effects are broken and obliterated roads, the collapse of bridges, floods and great fissures in the ground, from which mud, sand and water have issued, covering fields and crops with a devastating slimy deposit. The central area contains more than 300 square miles under sugar-cane. Though much of this has been saved, nearly all the sugar-mills have been destroyed. The chief difficulties at present are the supply of drinking water and the prevention of epidemics in towns and villages.
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Indian Earthquake of January 15. Nature 133, 168–169 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133168d0
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