An earthquake struck the Bay of Bengal at 3:29am on Thursday, with tremors shaking Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar.
The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported that the earthquake had a magnitude of 4. Its depth was 10 kilometres from the earth’s surface, and Teknaf was located 123 kilometres southwest of the epicenter.
India’s earthquake monitoring agency, the National Centre for Seismology, confirmed the same information. The agency also reported that the distance from the epicenter to the town of Belonia in Tripura was 334 kilometres south.
Bangladesh, however, experienced four earthquakes within a span of 31 hours, with the strongest tremor originating in Narsingdi on the morning of 21 November.
According to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, the first quake struck Madhabdi in Narsingdi at 10:38am on Friday, measuring 5.7 in magnitude. The impact was felt across Dhaka and surrounding districts.
A second tremor was recorded the following morning in Palash, Narsingdi, at 10:36am on 22 November, registering a magnitude of 3.3.
Later that evening, two more quakes struck in quick succession. The first was detected in Badda, Dhaka at 6:06pm, with a magnitude of 3.7, followed by another in Narsingdi at 6:06pm, measuring 4.3 magnitude.
