An earthquake jolted different parts of the country including densely populated Dhaka around 01:10pm today.

 

 

However, the Meteorological Office (MO) could not inform the magnitude of the earthquake immediately.

 

However, no incident of casualty was reported.

 

Further details were awaited.

 

For centuries, earthquakes have remained an afterthought all over the world, which worried more about tornadoes, floods and hurricanes.

 

In recent times earthquakes have sharply increased across the world.