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According to Oldham (1899), a deep rumbling sound like near thunder, commenced .....followed immediately by the shock. The ground began to rock violently and in a few seconds it was impossible to stand upright. In the central of the shock there was no master fault or fracture which could be regarded as origin, but a large area over which the disturbance, everywhere great and in many places extreme throughout the greater part of the Garo and Khasi hills, the intensity probably nowhere sank below VIII MM, more usually it reached fully X MM and in places even the XII MM of the extension (Oldham 1926). In this region there were repeated indications of the ground giving raise to changes of levels, faults and fractures of the solid rocks.
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