An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Myanmar on Tuesday, with sturdy tremors additionally felt in Kolkata and varied elements of Bangladesh.
Based on EMSC knowledge, the earthquake struck 70 miles east of Akyab in Myanmar. Shaking was reported from varied elements of West Bengal, together with Kolkata and the neighbouring Bangladesh. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.21 miles), the German Analysis Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) mentioned.
A bit of residents in high-rise buildings and workplace staff in Kolkata advised information company PTI that they skilled the aftershocks of the quake, which struck Myanmar at round 9.05 PM and lasted for a number of seconds.
That is the third felt earthquake in Myanmar within the final 71 hours, in keeping with EMSC. Thus far, there isn’t a report of any harm.
The second earthquake felt in Bangladesh on the identical day
That is additionally the second earthquake being felt in Bangladesh in lower than 24 hours. Earlier on Tuesday, an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck the nation, the Nationwide Centre for Seismology (NCS) mentioned in an announcement.
As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 150km.
It’s estimated that an earthquake happens someplace on Earth each 30 seconds. However the bulk of these are too weak to be recognized.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake is just equal to about 6 tons of TNT explosives, however as a result of the Richter scale is a base-10 logarithmic scale, the quantity of vitality launched will increase exponentially: A magnitude 5.0 earthquake is about 200 tons of TNT, 7.0 is 199,000 tons, and 9.0 is 99,000,000 tons of TNT, The Day by day Star reported.
