Another earthquake has jolted Dhaka and other parts of the country on Saturday afternoon, four days after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on Richter scale struck the country.
The tremor struck around 3:30pm.
The magnitude of the quake was 5.7 in Richter scale and the epicentre was 44 miles (71 km) WSW of Namche Bazar, Nepal, according to USGS.
Two earthquakes with the magnitudes of 7.3 and 6.4 hit Nepal on May 12. The earthquake was strongly felt in Dhaka too.
According to Bangladesh Meteorological Department, the epicentre of the first one was 611km northwest of BMD Seismic Centre, Agargaon, Dhaka.
The first wave struck Bangladesh about 1:30pm while the later one, whose epicentre was 33km north-northeast of Nepal’s Ramenchhap, was felt 35 minutes later.
“It is an aftershock of the April 25 earthquake and such a series of aftershocks can last up to 50 years,” said Prof Mahbuba Nasreen of Dhaka University.
The April 25 earthquake killed over 8,000 people in Nepal and injured at least 17,800.