A special bulletin of Bangladesh Meteorological Department said the mild earthquake measuring 4.1 in Richter Scale shook the Fulbaraia region of Mymensing district at about 10.45 am. However, there was no report of any damage or causality immediately after the tremor.
The epicentre of the earthquake was at Fulbaria, 107 kilometres north of the country?s Seismic Centre situated at Agargaon in Dhaka.
A magnitude-6.8 earthquake was felt across the country on 18 September of this year that rattled buildings causing cracks and damage to many buildings in the capital and elsewhere across the country.
Thousands of panicked people in Dhaka ran out of high-rise buildings on to the streets for as searching the way of escape.
The epicentre of that quake was in Sikkim, 490 km northwest of Agargaon Met office in Dhaka.
The earthquake also rocked some areas of neighbouring India, Nepal and Bhutan claiming many lives there and damaging hundreds of buildings.
Source: daily-sun.com
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