PLATE 3: Damage to Buildings by the 1994 earthquake

Fig. a: Building at Kisomoro Health Centre. Strong cracks appear in the pillar and unsupported sections of the walls.

Fig. b: Badly cracked pit latrines. Kisomoro Health Centre.

Fig. c: Centenary Memorial chapel, Yeriya. Hollow brick type visible in left hand corner of photograph.

Fig. d: Yeriya parish church, towers, arches and parapets a damaged.

Fig. e: Shop front, Bwamba road, Fort-portal, showing collapsed parapet wall.

Fig. f: Totally collapsed pit latrine, Canon Apollo Teacher Training College. Notice the large concrete

Slab roof concrete block construction.

Fig. g: Close up crack in Fig. b. The crack has propagated through baked bricks.

Fig. h: Badly damaged mud hut situated on steep hill sides at Nyakalengija where two people died due to land slides.

Fig. i: Inside wall in the Bishops residence, notice sun dried mud bricks with mud mortar covered with plaster. This type of building seemed very vulnerable to earthquake damage.

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Data source (Country report)

1.      Name: Julius NYAKAANA

2.      Organization: Geophysicist, Geophysics Section, Geological Survey and Mines Department

3.      Course: 1999 Gs

4.      Title: