A mild earthquake has rattled the northern districts of Bangladesh, with its epicentre in northwestern district Natore, 135 kilometres from Dhaka.
Published : 30 Jan 2018, 10:52 PM
The magnitude 4.2 tremor occurred at 8:15pm on Tuesday, weatherman Mostafizur Rahman at the Seismic Monitoring Centre of the Meteorological Department told bdnews24.com.
He said the epicentre of the quake was 3 kilometres deep.
bdnews24.com correspondents in the districts adjacent to Natore said people in their districts felt the tremor.
On Jan 20, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck India’s Assam, 30km from Bangladesh’s Kurhigram border, jolting the adjacent districts also.