Mild earthquake jolts Dhaka

A mild earthquake shook Dhaka and adjacent districts on Thursday afternoon. The tremor measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale was recorded at 4:15pm, meteorologist Shahnaj Sultana of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) told UNB.

The epicentre was located in Ghorashal of Narsingdi, 28 km northwest of BMD Seismic Centre in Agargaon, she said.

Earlier on November 22, a light quake measuring 4.3 magnitude on the Richter scale was felt seven and a half hours after a tremor was recorded in Palash upazila of Narsingdi the same morning.

On November 21, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit several parts of Bangladesh, leaving at least 10 people dead and dozens injured.
Two mild aftershocks also struck parts of the country the next day, spreading panic among people.

The met office's tremor monitoring centre called the quake a "mild" one but asked all to follow its previous advices with one being setting a strong table or anything like that in a specific place of a room to take shelter during quakes instead of scurrying in panic.

Duty officer at fire service Rafi Al Faruk said the received no report of damage following the jolt on Thursday.

Bangladesh sits on the collision zone of major tectonic plates, crossed by several active fault lines, placing the country at high seismic risk. The region has a long history of powerful earthquakes - five major quakes between 1869 and 1930 measured above 7.0 on the Richter scale.