Tremor jolts country twice within 3 hrs
Friday, 17 August 2007
Tremors jolted the country twice within three hours Thursday morning. A minor earthquake, measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale, jolted the country at about 02 hours 33 minutes 19 seconds (BST). The epicentre of the tremor was about 171.6 kms from Agargaon, Dhaka Seismic Observatory, 203 kms from Ambagan, Chittagong Seismic Observatory and 81 kms from Sylhet Seismic Observatory. Another light earthquake, measuring 4.1 on the Richter Scale, occurred at about 05 hours 59 minutes 41 seconds (BST). -- UNB