Earthquake jolts country again

Staff Reporter:

Earthquake jolted Dhaka, Chattogram and other districts of the country around 9:34pm on Tuesday, hours after a mild tremor had hit the country.

The epicenter of the latest quake was 521-kilometre away from the capital in Myanmar’s Minbu city and had a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale, reported the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). BMP marked the intensity as “moderate.”

As per “My Earthquake Alert” system, the depth was 62.7 kilometres.

The early morning quake had a 4.1 magnitude and the epicentre was in Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira. BMP marked the intensity “light.”