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BREAKING: Tremor Hits Dhaka, Bangladesh

by uncultured | July 26, 2008 at 02:27 pm

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Reporting from Dhaka - A moderate (5.6 on the Richter scale) earthquake recently hit Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh) a little more than 3 hours ago (at 12:52 am local time) as reported by The Daily Star.

I can actually confirm this through first hand experience. A few hours ago I was startled by what, at first, I thought to be someone shaking my chair. I then realized that everything was shaking. The whole incident lasted less than a minute.

I decided to hastily jot down when this happened on - of all places - on my Twitter account (the first time Twitter is used to tweet a tremor in real-time?). Confirmation of the tremor from local news sources than come three hours later.

More information as it becomes available.

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Reporting from Dhaka - NowPublic user Uncultured

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uncultured

at 14:44 on July 26th, 2008

This is breaking news at time of posting - unfortunately I don't have the user-level to flag it as such...

amyjudd

at 14:52 on July 26th, 2008

uncultured, thanks for getting this story out so quickly. It will now show up on the home page for four hours. If new developments justify it, I'll renew this flag for another cycle.

amyjudd

at 14:55 on July 26th, 2008

Thanks for this. I'll keep my eye open for updates too.

Rhonda J Mangus

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at 15:33 on July 26th, 2008

uncultured, I like this story. It's good stuff.

amyjudd

at 15:36 on July 26th, 2008

Some extra information:

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was centred 115 kilometres (70 miles) north of the capital Dhaka at a depth of 5.2 kilometres and struck at 12:51 am (1851 GMT Saturday).

There were no reports of any damage or casualties, but the tremor was felt in Dhaka and a police spokesman in Mymensingh, the district nearest the epicentre, told AFP it sparked panic there.

Vinny

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at 16:04 on July 26th, 2008

The USGS are now reporting the earthquake as 4.9 magnitude.

Vinny

at 16:09 on July 26th, 2008

10 km (5 miles) ENE of Mymensingh, Bangladesh 100 km (60 miles) N of Tungi (Tongi), Bangladesh 115 km (70 miles) N of DHAKA, Bangladesh 325 km (200 miles) NE of Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India