On the earthquake time a private news TV channel Somoy news room is shaking alongside the news presenter is continue their news and other side of the room is empty, a few of panic-people left from the room. A magnitude-6.8 earthquake was felt across the country evening on Sunday, shaking buildings in the capital and elsewhere. Panic-stricken people run out high-rise-buildings to the streets in Dhaka. Dhaka, September 2011. © Monirul Alam
I don’t have any experience of earthquakes but on Friday night I really felt it a few seconds at the same time my 14-month babies and his mother felt the same jolted. She run from the bedroom with my kids. Old part of the Dhaka is the one of the risky area for earthquakes. . . .
According to the news paper three moderate earthquakes shook different parts of the country including capital Dhaka on Friday night, and Saturday afternoon. When Muslims were to celebrating their greatest religious festivals Eid-ul-Fitr.
Panicked people especially in Old Dhaka and Mirpur areas came out of their homes after the quakes jolted their houses.
The first tremor was felt for few seconds at 10:42pm while the second one with the magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale also stay for a while and shooked the country at 11:24:17pm. and the A 5.2 magnitude aftershock shook different parts of the country Saturday afternoon.
MONIRUL ALAM 