Earthquake rocks parts of Bangladesh

[crikss]

- An earthquake rocked Dhaka and other parts of the country early Sunday.

Many said the earthquake was felt shortly before 1:00am.

Several callers phoned bdnews24.com and wanted to know details.

Dhaka University students rushed out of their dormitories into the open, witnesses said

Very scary ..I hope no bad news

Link -- http://bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=2&id=58245

[Nocturnal]

writing from dhaka...it's raining right now....news source and bangla blog says there was an earthquake in dhaka around 1am....didn't notice anything....watching Ind-SL highlights atm and ask indian batsman and they sure felt a massive one in colombo early today!!

[al Furqaan]

an uncle just called our house...how bad is it? an earthquake of even small magnitude in dhaka can kill lakhs.

[Nocturnal]

Originally Posted by al Furqaan
an uncle just called our house...how bad is it? an earthquake of even small magnitude in dhaka can kill lakhs.

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	4.9
Date-Time	Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 18:51:49 UTC Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 12:51:49 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	24.773°N, 90.480°E
Depth	5.2 km (3.2 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region	BANGLADESH
Distances	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
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 9.3 km (5.8 miles); depth +/- 33 km (20.5 miles)
Parameters	NST= 45, Nph= 45, Dmin=550.4 km, Rmss=0.94 sec, Gp= 58°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=Q
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2008uybc

SOURCE

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by Nocturnal
writing from dhaka...

Where in Dhaka?

[Nocturnal]

Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
Where in Dhaka?

close to New Market

[Nocturnal]

5.6 quake rocks Bangladesh

Sun, Jul 27th, 2008 2:14 am BdST
Dhaka, July 26, (bdnews24.com) -- At least 20 people were injured after a 5.6 earthquake rocked Dhaka and other parts of the country early Sunday.

The earthquake that lasted a few seconds was felt shortly before 1:00am.

Mominul Islam, a meteorologist of the Storm Warning Centre, told bdnews24.com that the quake measured 5.6 on the Richter scale.

Several callers phoned the bdnews24.com newsroom and wanted to know details.

Dhaka University students rushed out of their dormitories into the open and waited through the light rain, witnesses said.

"The whole floor was shaking. I thought it was not safe to stay inside," Ishtiaq Abedin, a founder of American International University-Bangladesh, told bdnews24.com by phone, after he came out of his Old DOHS apartment.

At least 20 Dhaka University students were treated for injuries after they jumped out of their dormitories in panic, said Tanvir Ali, a doctor of DU Medical Centre.

Abul Kalam Azad, a DU student, broke his leg after he jumped off a floor of his dormitory, panicked by the earthquake.

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[mahbubH]

Originally Posted by Nocturnal
Dhaka University students rushed out of their dormitories into the open and waited through the light rain, witnesses said.
....
At least 20 Dhaka University students were treated for injuries after they jumped out of their dormitories in panic, said Tanvir Ali, a doctor of DU Medical Centre.

Abul Kalam Azad, a DU student, broke his leg after he jumped off a floor of his dormitory, panicked by the earthquake.

link

Ahhh... miss those days!!

[Nocturnal]

delete!

[BD-Shardul]

So, what scientific measure do we take? No measure will save us, as long as we do not turn towards our God.

[Rabz]

I actually felt the quake!
I was just in bed, still up..and suddenly this light shaking of my bed!
It was only couple of seconds and i didnt realise what was happening. Quake was the last thing on my mind.

Still lying on my bed, lights off and eyes closed, i thought its just my imagination and may be my mind was making it up. Then i thought may be i was moving and hence i felt the bed moving. Then i actually shaked my body a bit to see if it felt the same and it didnt.

I was even thinking of may be a muscle spasm which let me to a little shaking!

Then all of a sudden i remembered of the movie "Exorcist", and that infamous scene where the girl's bed was shaking when she was possessed.

Then i laughed a bit, thinking may be i was just thinking too much and concentrated on trying to sleep, giving very little thought to it.

......I woke up this morning only to find out it was a quake!!!

[Alien]

Originally Posted by BD-Shardul
So, what scientific measure do we take? No measure will save us, as long as we do not turn towards our God.

One thing you gotta understand is that sometimes God will will it and it will happen even if the whole population is God fearing Muslims as a test or something.

Compare with Japan which has less than 0.05% Muslim population but is the most earthquake resistant country in the world. So we can conclude that this is random phenomenon. Randomly dubbing it as act of God makes you look like someone who knows what God does and what he doesn't. It's like playing God.

[Alien]

Originally Posted by Rabz
I was even thinking of may be a muscle spasm which let me to a little shaking!

I would rather go for earthquake than those middle of the night cramps which feels someone stabbed your leg with an axe.

[Rifat]

http://www.ittefaq.com/content/2008/07/28/news0048.htm


frequent earthquakes are only a minor sign of day of Judgement...Allah knows best.

i remember in my lifetime, Bangladesh having at least three of them. i am sort of happy that alhamdulillah it did't last very long and it didn't create that big of a deal, nor excessive lives were lost nor property... maybe Bangladesh gvernment could contact japanese government and do something about this in case we want to avoid future disasters

[Kabir]

Originally Posted by rifat
maybe Bangladesh gvernment could contact japanese government and do something about this in case we want to avoid future disasters

How will that help?

[sbsash]

Originally Posted by Kabir
How will that help?

It can help by getting tips from them.( If they give us)

[Fazal]

Originally Posted by sbsash
It can help by getting tips from them.( If they give us)

... and they tips in yen.

[Alien]

Originally Posted by sbsash
It can help by getting tips from them.( If they give us)

Unless you want to uproot the entire nation's flimsy building structures and replace with good earthquake resistant ones, I am afraid no tips from anyone will help. And that everyone knows is impossible.