Bangladesh shaken by tremors only seven hours after mild jolts day after deadly earthquake

After Friday’s devastating earthquake, two more in the day have sent citizens into panic

Bangladesh has been rattled again by an earthquake just seven and a half hours after a light tremor earlier in the day.

Residents in Dhaka and several other parts of the country felt the jolt at around 6:06pm on Saturday.

About an hour later, the city’s Fire Service said it had received no reports of casualties or damage from the mild quake.

According to the Earthquake Monitoring Centre of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, the evening tremor was of mild intensity, measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale.

Rubaiyat Kabir, an officer at the centre, said in a statement that the epicentre was in Badda.

Earlier at 10:36am, another minor tremor had shaken parts of the country. That quake measured 3.3 on the Richter scale.

It was initially reported to have originated near Baipail in Savar, but was later confirmed by the monitoring agency as having its epicentre in Palash, Narsingdi.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) gave a different reading for the evening quake, reporting a magnitude of 4.3, with the epicentre located 11km west of Narsingdi, at a depth of 10km.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) also recorded the tremor, placing its magnitude at 3.7 and the epicentre about 8km north-northeast of Dhaka.

Fire Service duty officer Anisur Rahman confirmed that no emergency calls had been received.

Saturday’s back-to-back tremors came less than 24 hours after the country suffered its deadliest earthquake in decades.

On Friday at 10:38am, a 5.7 magnitude quake struck with its epicentre in Narsingdi’s Madhabdi, 13km from Dhaka, at a depth of 10km.

The quake killed at least 10 people in three districts and injured more than 600.

Numerous buildings in the capital developed cracks, while some partially tilted.