An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale struck the Indian state of Meghalaya as well as Sylhet on Thursday.
No casualties or incidents of buildings titled or developing cracks were reported immediately.
The tremor was felt 11km northeast of Chatak upazila of Sylhet at 9:56am, Sajib Hossain, an assistant meteorologist at the Sylhet Meteorological Office, said. It lasted for a few seconds.
The distance from the earthquake's epicenter to the Agargaon earthquake monitoring center in the capital was 203km.
Sylhet is located near the Dawki Fault, which has been responsible for a number of devastating quakes for over a century, and most of the epicentres were near the city, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which records earthquakes across the world.
The last major earthquake of magnitude 5.5 with the epicentre in Maulvibazar -- only 42km from Sylhet, hit the city on March 2, 2013.
The strongest tremors felt in the Sylhet area in the last 100 years were a 7.2 quake in 1918 and a 6 in 1997.