After morning quake, Bangladesh jolts again in the evening

Bangladesh experienced another earthquake on Saturday evening, hours after a morning tremor and a day after a powerful 5.7-magnitude quake shook the country.

The evening tremor was felt around 6:10pm in Dhaka. Rubaiyat Kabir, officer-in-charge of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department’s Earthquake Observation Centre, confirmed the quake to Jago News and said further details would follow.

Later, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department reported that the evening earthquake had a magnitude of 4.3, with its epicentre in the Badda area, about 6 kilometres east of the Dhaka observatory.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) also recorded the quake, placing the epicentre at coordinates 23.780°N, 90.440°E, roughly 8 kilometres north-northeast of Dhaka, and reported the same magnitude of 3.7.

Earlier in the day, at 10:36:12am, a separate tremor of magnitude 3.3 was recorded. Its epicentre was Palash in Narsingdi, located 29 kilometres northeast of the Dhaka Earthquake Observation and Research Centre.

The latest tremors come just one day after the most devastating earthquake in Bangladesh’s recent history struck Narsingdi, killing 10 people and injuring hundreds across the country.