Several buildings in Bangladesh tilt, develop cracks after Nepal quake

Several buildings in Dhaka and other districts of Bangladesh have either developed a crack or tilted in an earthquake.

Fire Service officials are examining the buildings.
 
Bhojon Sarker from Fire Service’s control room said they received information about 10 buildings in Dhaka and seven in other districts either developed cracks or tilted due to the impact of the quake. 
 
Around 12:11pm Saturday a massive tremor was felt in the capital and in many other areas of Bangladesh.
  
According to USGS, the earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude had its epicentre 29km south-east of Nepal’s Lamjung.
 
In Rajshahi, four buildings tilted while cracks surfaced in three buildings, regional senior staff officer of Fire Service Shariful Islam said.
 

A five-storey building housing Mosharraf Hossain Vocational Training Academy, two three-storey commercial buildings at Kadirganj and Naribazar and a four-storey building at Sonadighi’s Moni Square tilted, he said.

Cracks surfaced in a building of Dr Sujit Vadra at Sagarpara, a three-storey building of Keshabpur Primary School and another three-storey building of Masjid Mission School in the city, according to Islam.

He also said glass panel of an 11-storey commercial building at Sahebbazar too cracked.

T Amin High School teacher Omar Sharif said cracks were found in the recently built three-story building of the school at Madan Upazila in Netrokona.

The six-storey ST Plaza on JM Sengupta Road in Chandpur city tilted slightly while cracks were found in the five-storied Maksuda Mahal-1.

Gazipur’s Shripur Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Sadequr Rahman said he visited Ridisha Nitex Limited’s six-storey factory building at Nayanpur.

He said it would not be proper to speculate, before inspections by engineers, whether the building actually tilted in the quake.  

Managing Director Rezaul Karim said they called engineers to check the building.