DHAKA, Nov 27, 2025 (BSS) – A fifth earthquake within a time span of four days today jolted the capital and adjacent areas with met office measuring its magnitude to be 3.6 on Richter scale and locating the epicenter at Ghorashal of Narsingdi on the outskirts of the capital.

“The latest quake was occurred at 4:15:20 pm today. Its epicenter was at Ghorashal in Narsingdi district, 44.5 kilometers away from Dhaka,” meteorologist Shahnaj Sultana of Bangladesh Meteorological Department told BSS.

The met office’s tremor monitoring centre called the quake a “mild” one but asked all to follow its previous advices with one being setting a strong table or anything like that in a specific place of a room to take shelter during quakes instead of scurrying in panic.

Duty officer at fire service Rafi Al Faruk said the received no report of damage following the jolt today.

The strongest among the five quakes, a 5.7-magnitude tremor, on early Friday jolted the capital and different areas of the country and claimed 10 lives, wounded over 600 people and damaged a number of buildings.

The epicenter of all the five tremors was at different areas of Narsingdi, about 25 kilometers from the capital.