Around six in the morning on Friday, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, experienced strong earthquake tremors. On the Richter scale, it registered as having a 4.9 intensity.
The earthquake’s epicenter was only a few kilometers from Dhaka. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake had a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale and had its epicenter 10 km beneath the surface of the Earth, close to Dohar Upazila in the Dhaka Division.