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Two insignificant tremors deed Bangladesh connected Saturday (November 22, 2025), a time aft a almighty earthquake struck extracurricular the superior Dhaka and killed astatine slightest 10 people.
A 3.3-magnitude jolt was recorded successful Narshingdi district, East of Dhaka, successful the morning, followed by a 4.3-magnitude quake that struck the superior astir 6:00 p.m. (1200 GMT), according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.
Dhaka nonmigratory Tasnuba Sharmin Sharna, 32, said her children started screaming arsenic the furnishings successful their flat began shaking. "We are praying to God for mercy," Ms. Sharna told AFP.
Friday's (November 21, 2025) deadly earthquake was felt successful Dhaka and neighbouring districts, causing wide destruction.
Updating earlier tolls from the 5.5-magnitude quake, catastrophe absorption authoritative Ishtiaqe Ahmed told AFP that "the fig of casualties has reached 10, portion a fewer hundreds were injured".
There were nary contiguous reports of casualties connected Saturday (November 22, 2025), but the aftershocks — which are communal aft large earthquakes — person added to fears of an adjacent greater disaster.
"I don't consciousness harmless yet, arsenic determination was different jolt this morning... Maybe we are next," said Shahnaj Parvin, 44, who lives adjacent the epicentre of Friday's (November 21, 2025) earthquake and told AFP she had ne'er experienced specified a tremor.
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 Ms. Parvin. "I held onto a mahogany tree, and erstwhile I returned home, I recovered my glassware broken."
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 Center said Bangladesh's geography makes the state of 170 cardinal radical prone to quakes. "That's wherefore we acquisition earthquakes rather frequently, though they are not arsenic beardown arsenic the one" connected Friday (November 21, 2025), helium told AFP.
"Some tiny tremors are expected aft immoderate large earthquake," Mr. Kabir said. "There has been nary monolithic earthquake successful the past 100 years oregon more, but Bangladesh has been susceptible for rather immoderate time."
