Aftershock shakes Bangladesh as earthquake death toll rises to 10

Friday’s earthquake was felt successful the superior Dhaka and neighbouring districts, causing demolition and panic.

A low-magnitude tremor shook Bangladesh, the nationalist meteorological work has said, a time aft a almighty earthquake struck adjacent the capital, Dhaka, sidesplitting astatine slightest 10 people.

Updating earlier tolls from Friday’s magnitude 5.5 earthquake, catastrophe absorption authoritative Ishtiaqe Ahmed said connected Saturday that “the fig of casualties has reached 10, portion a fewer 100 were injured”, according to the AFP quality agency.

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Friday’s earthquake was felt successful Dhaka and neighbouring districts, causing wide demolition and panic.

Omar Faruq of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department said different insignificant jolt was recorded connected Saturday astatine 10:36am (04:36 GMT).

The epicentre of the magnitude 3.3 tremor was successful Ashulia, conscionable northbound of the capital, the meteorologist told AFP.

Aftershocks are communal aft almighty earthquakes, but for immoderate successful Bangladesh, it has added to fears of an adjacent greater disaster.

“I don’t consciousness harmless yet, arsenic determination was different jolt this greeting successful Ashulia. Maybe we are next,” said Shahnaj Parvin, who lives adjacent the epicentre of Friday’s earthquake and had ne'er experienced thing similar that before.

Cracks person developed successful dozens of houses successful her area, she said.

“I was hanging my children’s apparel connected the washing enactment erstwhile the tremor struck,” added Parvin.

The authorities has activated Bangladesh’s exigency cognition centre to measure the standard of the harm and to coordinate alleviation and rescue operations.

Rubayet Kabir of the Meteorological Department’s Earthquake Observation and Research Centre said Bangladesh’s geography makes the state of 170 cardinal radical prone to earthquakes.

“Some tiny tremors are expected aft immoderate large earthquake,” Kabir said. “There has been nary monolithic earthquake successful the past 100 years oregon more, but Bangladesh has been susceptible for rather immoderate time,” helium told AFP.

On Friday, aft the earthquake struck, Shadman Sakif Islam, a Dhaka resident, told Al Jazeera that “small ripples” helium noticed successful his java were followed by a “massive shingle that started occurring without immoderate warning” arsenic the world shook.

“My seat and the array started shaking wildly, and I was stuck determination for 10-15 seconds without processing what was going on,” helium added.

“I ne'er felt thing similar this successful my full beingness … I felt similar riding connected a boat, riding monolithic waves 1 aft another,” the nonmigratory added.

Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury, reporting from Dhaka, said connected Friday, “It was 1 of the biggest earthquakes successful caller past and was precise adjacent to the superior city. The full metropolis was successful panic.”